in a button

This is a book about a button. It is also a book about noticing, wondering, and imagining. Mostly it's a book about YOU... the button you will find... and what might happen next.

IN A BUTTON opens a wondrous space of curiosity and joy as readers are invited on a quiet, beautifully illustrated journey to... notice, wonder, imagine, create, delight, and be with a single button.

The book has a light narrative structure that opens with a child who makes a discovery, builds to involve readers in making their own imaginative discoveries, and returns to the quiet, creative self-sufficiency of the child.

Inside this story is a uniquely nuanced concept book. The illustrations shift in perspective, balance, and scale as they move between exacting realism and impressionistic brush work to mirror the fluidity of how a wandering mind notices size, shape, color, texture, and orientation alongside and overlapping with introspection, invention, memory, and dream.

The artwork holds weight and energy that feels like a button itself, and slowly, with each page turn, you begin to hold your own expansiveness like a button in your hand.

Author and illustrator team, Melissa A. Butler and Nicholas Hohman, have created a book not only about a button, but also about the awe and wisdom of wonder itself.

A book...

- to read again and again

- of play, invention, and discovery

- for families, educators, librarians, artists, meditators, and makers

- to help you remember that a button is enough as it is, and you are enough as you are.

"A picture book to savor." - "Beautifully paced, with engaging illustrations." - A book for "all of us - young and maybe not-so young." - "A starting point for fostering curiosity and imagination." - "A beautiful reminder that there is always something more to notice."

Melissa A. Butler has been noticing buttons her whole life, sometimes with children, sometimes with her cat Willow, and sometimes by herself. She believes that everything that matters can be found in small things. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA. www.melissaabutler.com

Nicholas Hohman paints and draws. He cooks, he cleans (more cooking than cleaning) and cares for his children and his gardens. If he's not drawing or deep in the throes of the domestic and parental arts, you'll likely find him wandering in the woods or riding a bicycle far and slowly, stopping often to inspect a mushroom, inhale deeply of the prairie wildflowers, or wonder at the flight of a spirited bird. www.nicholashohman.com