SuitabookButtons
Brock Cole
- Reading
- Read together and pause after each daughter explains her idea. Invite your child to notice how the illustrations add to the joke, then compare guesses with what happens.
- Themes
- Family and resourcefulness: The mother enlists the three daughters in finding replacement buttons for their father, and each devises a different plan. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Marriage and the daughters’ plans: The eldest seeks a young man in the hope of exchanging marriage for buttons, while the second disguises herself as a man to join the army and obtains a husband. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Two daughters’ strategies involve attracting a husband or joining the army; marriage is presented as part of their plans to obtain buttons. Consider whether that comic fairy-tale framing suits your family.