Author: Melissa A. Butler

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Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781737257820

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. | Debut 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. | 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. | IN A BUTTON 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. | This is a book to read again and again... a book for families, educators, librarians, artists, meditators, and makers... a book of play, invention, and discovery... a book to remember that a button is enough as it is, and you are enough as you are. | "Beautifully paced, with engaging illustrations." "An engaging, charming and soothing introduction to contemplation." "By book's end we find that a button is not just a button in the same way our story is not just a story, but a starting point for fostering curiosity and imagination."