The somewhat cuddly pair is comically shown participating in their less-than-ordinary activities like “having spaghetti for breakfast, French toast for dinner, and rocky road ice cream in the bathtub.” They play with robots, listen to really loud music, burp like champions and miss school to visit New York to share a hot dog. Santat has good fun creating scenes for two hairy, horned monsters, the dad pickle green and the child a pleasing purple.
What saves this title from being just a syrupy pronouncement are the characters. Unabashed sentimentality dominates the text in this loving promise from a father to his child. They will still laugh.Īt least the red button doesn’t initiate the self-destruct sequence-though many more stories of this ilk may cause a market implosion. Has it been done in a more engaging, creative way? Yes. The urgency, desperation and dire pleas contradict a child’s natural curiosity (and perhaps the ever-tempting urge to do what is forbidden). You should give the button one little push.” With the turn of the page, Larry has turned yellow! Thus begins a familiar romp in which readers are given directions, and poor Larry gains spots and then multiplies into many other monsters. That button does look awfully tempting….He whispers in a conspiratorial tone, “Psst! No one is looking. Don’t even THINK about it.” But then Larry experiences some inner turmoil.
He comes in closer and growls, “Seriously. Larry tells readers to not push the button. Red buttons almost always signal danger, but an unmarked button is also impossible to resist. He stands alone on the page, next to a single red button across the gutter. Larry is a rounded purple monster, similar to McDonald’s Grimace but with horns.
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She did like me shouting “Boo” louder and louder, and one of the times I read it, when I said “Ring the doorbell!” she went and picked up one of her Sesame Street noise books that has an actual doorbell to ring! So she knew what I was saying! But that’s about as interactive as it got, unless you count her grabbing the book away from me.ĭon’t Push the Button! is a multi-book series by Bill Cotter, and we’ll definitely be checking out more when Marian’s older.There is only one rule: Don’t push the button. Unfortunately, Marian is a bit young for it right now. This would be a great Halloween book for a toddler. I love the idea of the child reader having agency in the storytelling. On each page, the monster main character prompts the child to interact with the book to continue the story: ring the doorbell, open the door slowly, shout boo to scare the monsters away, etc. This is a cute, interactive Halloween board book. Mommy Margaret reviews Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat But the monsters in the book look like they love all that candy! I want some! I wonder if I scream really loudly if Mommy will give me some candy? I bet Daddy will. But I am excited about the prospect of candy, though Mommy says I can’t have any. I wonder if there will be scary houses at Boo at the Zoo, like in the book? Is being scared like when I have a nightmare? If so, I don’t like it. I’m going to Boo at the Zoo as Phantom from Phantom of the Opera, my favorite musical. In the last picture, it shows a bunch of monsters, one of them dressed like an alligator, so I’m guessing these are monsters and not kids, but I could be wrong. Or is it a child dressed as a monster? I’m a little confused by this Halloween thing. In Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat, a monster goes trick-or-treating at this spooky house. Mommy read this to me three times! First at the library, and then two more times at home. Baby Librarian Marian and her mommy Margaret review the spookily interactive board book Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat by Bill Cotter.īaby Librarian Marian reviews Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat
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