Each button on Laura’s memory string represents a piece of her family history. The buttons Laura cherishes the most belonged to her mother—a button from her prom dress, a white one off her wedding dress, and a single small button from the nightgown she was wearing on the day she died.
When the string breaks, Laura’s new stepmother, Jane, is there to comfort Laura and search for a missing button, just as Laura’s mother would have done. But it’s not the same—Jane isn’t Mom. In Eve Bunting’s moving story, beautifully illustrated by Ted Rand, Laura discovers that a memory string is not just for remembering the past: it’s also for recording new memories.---from the publisher
40 pages 978-0544555471 Ages 4-7
Keywords: family, memories, buttons, death and dying, loss, stepmother, stepfamilies, hope, comfort, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, connection, relationships, comfort
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