in a button

<p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>This is a book about a button. It is also a book about noticing wondering and imagining. Mostly it's a book about </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>YOU</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>... the button you will find... and what might happen next.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>IN A BUTTON</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> opens a wondrous space of curiosity and joy as readers are </span>invited on a quiet beautifully illustrated journey to... <span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>notice wonder imagine create delight and </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>be </em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>with a single button.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>A book...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>·     to read again and again</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>·     of play invention and discovery</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>·     for families educators librarians artists meditators and makers</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>·     to help you remember that </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>a button is enough as it is</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>you are </em><em>enough as you are</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>A picture book to savor. - Beautifully paced with engaging illustrations. - A book for all of us - young and maybe not-so young. - </em></strong><strong><em>A starting point for fostering curiosity and imagination. - A beautiful reminder that there is always something more to notice.</em></strong></p><p><br></p>