Author(s): Eve Bunting
No. of Pages: 40 pages
Date Published: 21 Sep 2015
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Format: Paperback | 40 pages
Dimensions: 254 x 254 x 3.56mm | 199.58g
Language: English
Publication City/Country: Boston, United States
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: full colour illustrations

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.