Button Girl: More than 20 Cute-as-a Button Projects
by Mikyla Bruder with photographs by Scott M. Nobles
At the beginning of the book is a little history about buttons and button tips and techniques. Every project in this book is created using different kinds of buttons. You can use the buttons to jazz up a boring button up shirt, belt, scarf, or even slippers. Buttons can also be used to make pins, rings, decorate sunglasses, make barrettes and earrings, or create gifts for others, such as button magnets, coasters, or picture frames. There are lots of interesting and creative ideas in this book for creating things with buttons.
by Mikyla Bruder with photographs by Scott M. Nobles
At the beginning of the book is a little history about buttons and button tips and techniques. Every project in this book is created using different kinds of buttons. You can use the buttons to jazz up a boring button up shirt, belt, scarf, or even slippers. Buttons can also be used to make pins, rings, decorate sunglasses, make barrettes and earrings, or create gifts for others, such as button magnets, coasters, or picture frames. There are lots of interesting and creative ideas in this book for creating things with buttons.
Little Rooster’s Diamond Button
Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald and illustrated by Will Terry
A little old woman lives with her pet rooster somewhere across the seven seas. One day the rooster finds a diamond button and decides to take the button to his owner. At this time, the king was walking by, and when he saw the diamond button, he wanted for his treasure chamber. The rooster tells the king he wants the button back, but the king tells his servants to get rid of the rooster. The servants throw the rooster into the well, but the rooster’s magic stomach drinks up all the water in the well. Then the rooster demands the button back from the king again. The king tells his servants to throw the rooster into the fire, but the rooster uses all of the water he drank out of the well to put out the fire. When he goes to the king again, the king tells his servants to throw the rooster at the beehive, but the rooster eats all of the bees, instead. Will the bees be able to hurt the rooster? Will the rooster be able to get his diamond button back from the king?
Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald and illustrated by Will Terry
A little old woman lives with her pet rooster somewhere across the seven seas. One day the rooster finds a diamond button and decides to take the button to his owner. At this time, the king was walking by, and when he saw the diamond button, he wanted for his treasure chamber. The rooster tells the king he wants the button back, but the king tells his servants to get rid of the rooster. The servants throw the rooster into the well, but the rooster’s magic stomach drinks up all the water in the well. Then the rooster demands the button back from the king again. The king tells his servants to throw the rooster into the fire, but the rooster uses all of the water he drank out of the well to put out the fire. When he goes to the king again, the king tells his servants to throw the rooster at the beehive, but the rooster eats all of the bees, instead. Will the bees be able to hurt the rooster? Will the rooster be able to get his diamond button back from the king?
The Button Box
by Margarette S. Reid and illustrated by Sarah Chamberlain
A little boy likes to play with the buttons that are inside his grandma’s special box. She has lots of different types of buttons inside, and the little boy likes to pull out the buttons he likes and sort them. He sorts them into groups of the buttons that are alike, and thinks about what clothes the buttons are from and would go on. Sometimes the boy and his grandma play a game with the buttons. They close their eyes and try to figure out if the buttons are alike. The boy also likes hearing his grandma tell him where the buttons are from. When it is time to put the buttons back in the box, the little boy likes to let the buttons fall through his fingers into the box. Then they put the box away until the next time he comes to grandma’s house.
by Margarette S. Reid and illustrated by Sarah Chamberlain
A little boy likes to play with the buttons that are inside his grandma’s special box. She has lots of different types of buttons inside, and the little boy likes to pull out the buttons he likes and sort them. He sorts them into groups of the buttons that are alike, and thinks about what clothes the buttons are from and would go on. Sometimes the boy and his grandma play a game with the buttons. They close their eyes and try to figure out if the buttons are alike. The boy also likes hearing his grandma tell him where the buttons are from. When it is time to put the buttons back in the box, the little boy likes to let the buttons fall through his fingers into the box. Then they put the box away until the next time he comes to grandma’s house.
Buttons for General Washington
by Peter and Connie Roop and illustrated by Peter E. Hanson
John’s parents send messages to his brother Charles in code and hidden within John’s buttons for General George Washington. His parents tell him to be careful, give him his pass to leave Philadelphia, and send him to Washington’s camp. He knows that it is dangerous to be a spy, and so he is careful to avoid British soldiers while he is traveling through town. On the way out of town, John runs into a boy that is on the British side, and the two boys have a scuffle. John makes it to the guard station and leaves Philadelphia. Soon, he notices that he is missing one of his buttons, realizes that he must have lost it during the scuffle with the other boy, and goes back to Philadelphia to get it. The guard at the station had found it and gives it to John. John is in a hurry to get to the camp, and then he is found by a bearded man and taken into the American army camp. Will John be able to get the messages in the buttons to his brother? Will he be able to meet George Washington?
by Peter and Connie Roop and illustrated by Peter E. Hanson
John’s parents send messages to his brother Charles in code and hidden within John’s buttons for General George Washington. His parents tell him to be careful, give him his pass to leave Philadelphia, and send him to Washington’s camp. He knows that it is dangerous to be a spy, and so he is careful to avoid British soldiers while he is traveling through town. On the way out of town, John runs into a boy that is on the British side, and the two boys have a scuffle. John makes it to the guard station and leaves Philadelphia. Soon, he notices that he is missing one of his buttons, realizes that he must have lost it during the scuffle with the other boy, and goes back to Philadelphia to get it. The guard at the station had found it and gives it to John. John is in a hurry to get to the camp, and then he is found by a bearded man and taken into the American army camp. Will John be able to get the messages in the buttons to his brother? Will he be able to meet George Washington?
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