Reseña: Norman

 My thanks to the author for the PDF copy!

Norman 

by  

Michelle Olson

 32 pages

Published October 5th 2018 by Bellie Button Books

ISBN: 1732370710 (ISBN13: 9781732370715)

Edition Language: English 

BLURB: Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018 and a finalist in the NIEA Awards,  Norman is a sweet story of perseverance for kids 4-8.
Norman the Button loved his job. He helped keep his coat closed and his person warm. This made Norman feel needed and that made him very happy. But after falling off his coat Norman feels depressed, he is convinced he must find a new job to feel needed again. He tries several new jobs but none are a good fit. After being burned as a firefighter and nearly drowned as a plumber, Norman almost decides to give up and let himself be recycled. Once Norman realizes his greatest strength is in being a button, he finally sees the perfect job is right in front of him.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Cute and funny children's book about a button out of job and it search for a new employment and usefulness.

Norman was proud of his job as a coat button keeping his employer warm, but when the button found itself suddenly behind and lost, it had to start thinking about what else could work.

It can be seen how this premise could be used with children to invent other jobs for a button. Like Norman tryng to reinvent itself as firefighter, plummer, petcaring and others.

The use of photographs to make this story an adventure looks very entertaining.

Anyway , is a nice message that is important to be yourself and use your best qualities to do it.

As a suggestion, I could put some vocabulary in the end, and maybe some activities for children. But I see that is a link in the author page for the last one.

http://www.michelle-olson.com/

Norman el botón esta hecho con fotografias en un proceso parecido a las peliculas de slowmo. Bueno, este es un libro para ayudar a la autoestima en niños y se pueden proponer preguntas acerca de que harian en ese caso, ademas de divertirse usando estrategias para que el buton Norman consiga trabajo. O lo que se les ocurra.

Simpático.

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