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The Button Box

The Button Box

Paperback (01 May 1995)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"Simple toys are best, and when they're done as well as this, simple books as well."-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

An imaginative little boy explores the many pleasures that can be found in-and made from-his grandmother's button box.

NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies


"Chamberlain's bold linoleum cuts, with gentle color added, portray the buttons in loving detail and give the book an appropriately old-fashioned flavor."-Kirkus Reviews

"Besides inspiring some flights of fancy for readers, the book will suggest many uses to parents and librarians for games, history lessons, and puppetry."-Booklist 

About the Publisher

Puffin Books

Puffin is the UK's leading publisher of children's books and one of its best-loved brands. The publishing programme spans novelty books for the very young and picture books through to teenage fiction, and poetry and non-fiction through to film and TV tie-ins. Puffin publishes an award-winning range of bestselling authors including Janet & Allan Ahlberg, Eric Carle, Eoin Colfer, Roald Dahl, Anne Fine, Dick King-Smith and Melvin Burgess.

Book information

ISBN: 9780140554953
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Imprint: Puffin Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 24
Weight: 98g
Height: 218mm
Width: 438mm
Spine width: 7mm