The Good for Nothing Button!

 

Title: The Good for Nothing Button

Author: Charise Mericle Harper & Mo Willems

Series: An Elephant & Piggie Like Reading Book

Recommended for: grades 1-3

Pages: 49

Call Number/Link:  Reader Willems, M.

 

 

Synopsis:   Yellow Bird has a button. It does . . . nothing! It is a good for nothing button. Red Bird and Blue Bird are excited to try the button. But when they press it, they discover that the button makes them happy. Happy is something! A flabbergasted Yellow Bird insists the button does nothing. But it sure does seem to be making him mad. Mad is something!  The hilarious debate that follows takes readers on an emotional roller coaster that pokes at the power of imaginative play.

My thoughts:  I think this book is so funny and it feeds the need for our Mo fans of Elephant and Piggie.  They will love the books in this series, the children I have read these to have loved them so far.  This is great as a read aloud as well.

 

Aveluz/Firebird

 

Title: Aveluz: el secreto de las nubes / Firebird: he lived for the sunshine

Author: Brent McCorkle / Amy Parker

Series: N/A

Recommended for: Preschool to 3rd grade

Pages: 32

Call Number/Link:  SPA E MCCORKLE, B.

 

Synopsis: Firebird is a bright orange baby Oriole who just loves the sunshine. But whenever a storm blows in, he frets and asks Mama why God allows the rain to take the sun away. When Firebird is finally old enough, his mother gently instructs him to fly up through the thunder and lightning to see what’s on the other side. It’s a rough flight and just when he’s about to give up, Firebird rises above the storm to discover the sun shining where it always had been. Firebird is a children’s book that parallels the life of Samantha Crawford, a storybook artist in the inspirational film Unconditional, who lost sight of God’s love and discovered it again.

It was a supercute book that explained what happens when it storms to a small child, it uses a very impressive method that the mommy bird explains to her baby bird.  I think this would be a great book for a parent to read to their child, read for a children’s church class, etc.  The fact that this book is bilingual manageble sentences in English and Spanish is a plus and with beautiful illustrations.