The Button Box

Reid, Margarette S.

ISBN 10: 0525445900 / ISBN 13: 9780525445906

Published by Dutton Juvenile, 1990

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Button Box
• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525445900
• ISBN 13: 9780525445906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Chamberlain, Sarah
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

A child examines the many different buttons in Grandma's button box.

Reviews

The first two pages of this book are almost exciting. A boy narrator states he likes the contents of a special box at his grandmother's house. Turn the page and there is a box of buttons--no words--just buttons. Unfortunately, it's all downhill from there. The boy describes various buttons, telling what he imagines and knows about them--that some came from shoes or from his grandfather's pants. A brief history of buttons appears in the back. A story about buttons just isn't much of a story, and the grocery-store quality illustrations in dull, lifeless watercolors without detail or depth don't help. Even the layout is sloppy. --Denise Krell, New York Public Library
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