Foley’s, Sigfried's Smelly Socks! explodes in disgusting smells amid vibrant illustrations on colored pages causing an eruption of smiles and smirks in the readers. The book is ludicrously funny. The bold and burlesque type images employed by Foley are comedic without the need for words. The outlandish caricature of the cover shows up in different stances in this narrative of unpleasant smells to tickle the reader with horror. The multiple plausible reasons for the offensive smell of the book are juxtaposed later on when the narrator describes the various offensive odors coming from his pile of socks. In his descriptions of the socks' odor, there are no end rhymes; instead, there is a profusion of similes to convey the varying stenches. A barrel of laughs …show more content…
Many of the pages either explain the awful smells of the book or describe the odors of Sigfried's socks. In the first few pages, an explanation for the horrendous scent is given in two stanzas with the last word in both verses rhyming and creating a quick and smooth rhythm to the lines. In the remaining pages, we discover why the book gets its unusual title and why the smell might never go away. The book’s illustrations are amusing with colorful caricatures whose sole purpose is to evoke laughter. The drawings occupy about fifty percent of the page, and the words appear to be organized in short stanzas sometimes diagonally opposite on the page and at other times in a block format with a bright illustration in between. The quizzical look of the caricatures gets increasingly intense as they depict the atrocities to which the book was subjected like Oscar the dog’s pee. The cartoons are deliberately funny and can undoubtedly make children laugh as demonstrated by the depiction of the narrator’s