The Good for Nothing Button! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!) - Hardcover

Willems, Mo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1484726464 ISBN 13: 9781484726464

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, 2017

Synopsis

Yellow Bird has a button. It does . . . nothing! It is a good for nothing button.




Red Bird and Blue Bird are excited to try the button. But when they press it, they discover that the button makes them happy. Happy is something! A flabbergasted Yellow Bird insists the button does nothing. But it sure does seem to be making him mad. Mad is something!




The hilarious debate that follows takes readers on an emotional roller coaster that pokes at the power of imaginative play.

About this title

About the Author

Charise Mericle Harper (www.chariseharper.com)has created many books for children, including Cupcake, Go! Go! Stop!,Princess Patty MeetsHer Match, and the Just Grace and Fashion Kitty series. Charise lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.





Mo Willems, a New York Times #1 best-selling author and illustrator, has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions, for Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. His celebrated Elephant & Piggie series has won two Theodor Seuss Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors. Other favorites include Leonardo, the Terrible Monster and The Story of Diva and Flea.




Mo began his career as a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards. He lives with his family in Massachusetts.







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Reviews

PreS-Gr 1—Harper's hilarious entry in the series will press readers' buttons as they encounter three birds who experience surprise, sadness, happiness, anger, and more. Yellow Bird brings a red button on a brown base to Red Bird and Blue Bird, and Yellow Bird says, "The button does nothing." As the birds take turns pressing the button, their actions trigger feelings. Blue Bird says, "The button is SO easy to press. It surprised me! A surprise is NOT nothing." When Red Bird presses the button, she says, "The button did not surprise me." And she is sad about that. Blue Bird points out, "Sad is NOT nothing!" When Blue Bird and Red Bird experience happiness from pressing the button, Yellow Bird becomes angry and says, "It is a Good for NOTHING Button!" Yellow Bird's raging insistence inspires Red and Blue Bird to laugh and become happy, concluding that "the button can do EVERYTHING!" This story will be enjoyed by prereaders and by emerging and fluent readers alike and will support extension activities. VERDICT A valuable addition to beginning reader collections.—Laura Scott, Farmington Community Library, MI

Edition details

• Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484726464
• ISBN 13: 9781484726464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64