socks is the name of the newest character to be created by beverly cleary he is a young tabby cat with four white paws and he lives happily with a young married couple marilyn and bill bricker the center of the bricker household socks rules it affectionately but firmlyinto this loving home however comes another pet this creature has a small wrinkled furless face and mr and mrs bricker spend an inordinate amount of time trying to burp it its arrival fills socks with jealousy and a terrible anxiety how the rivalry between socks and charles william the bricker baby turns into an alliance makes a domestic drama both touching and funnyalthough her story is about a cat and faithful to his point of view in every detail mrs cleary demonstrates with it the emotional upheaval experienced by a child who must learn to share his parents as young readers come to understand socks and his problems they will gain a new understanding of themselves but most of all they will laugh