Old and New Storybooks

Bun Bun Button by Patricia Polacco today’s children storybook summary is Bun Bun Button By Patricia Polacco Storyline: Darlings are the blessed kind. According to Grandma Darling, the Old Blue Chair that sat in the living room was a love soaker (we, on more everyday language, would call it a love chair): everybody that sat in it was touched by love and luck. And, as we can see from the first page of the book, there sat cats, dogs, Grandma Darling herself and her granddaughter, Paige Elizabeth Darling, who was visiting from time to time after school.

The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi today’s storybook summary is The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi Storyline: This story comes from the village of Tos in Cameroon and it is narrated by a girl that left the place when she was almost a grown up. The village has, indeed, two kind of houses: square houses for men and round houses for women, and the girl tells us why.