Bunting, E. (2000). The Memory String. Illus. Ted Rand. New York, NY: Clarion Books.
Brief Annotation: Laura has recently lost her mother and her father has remarried. One day, Laura grabs her cat and takes her memory string out of her box. There is a memory that each of the buttons on the string holds, like her mother's nightgown, her grandmother's first dress, and her grandfather's service jacket. Suddenly, the cat jumps away, ripping the string and sending buttons flying everywhere! Laura and her family begin a desperate search to find and replace all the buttons.
Genre: Fiction, picture book.
Grade Level: Pre-K through 3.
Readers who will like this: Readers who have lost someone close, readers adjusting to change.
Response/Rating (1-4): ****. I read this book to my soon to be stepdaughter, and we both really enjoyed it. It made her ask questions about stepfamilies and remarriage, which is precisely what Bunting sought out to do, I think. This was a great read.
One question you would ask before a read aloud: Does anyone here have a blended family? Was that hard to adjust to?
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