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Poppy and the Giant Button
Ages 3–5
Poppy presses one enormous purple button—and suddenly she is the tiniest thing in Gran’s sewing room. When
the magic button rolls away, Poppy must chase it across a world of giant yarn, towering thimbles and enormous slippers. Then a runaway ribbon gives her a wonderfully wobbly idea for getting home.
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Poppy was helping Gran sort buttons.
Red buttons.
Blue buttons.
Round buttons.
Square buttons.
Then Poppy found one VERY big button.
It was purple and shiny.
“Ooooh,” said Poppy.
She pressed it.
CLICK!
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The sewing basket grew.
The chair grew.
Gran’s slippers grew.
Even the dust bunny under the table grew.
Poppy looked at her hands.
They were tiny.
She looked at her feet.
Tiny too.
“Oh,” said Poppy.
“That was definitely a button.”
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The purple button rolled away.
Bump-bump-bump!
“Wait!” cried Poppy.
It rolled under the chair.
Poppy ran after it.
But one strand of yellow yarn lay across the floor.
To Poppy, it looked like a giant wiggly wall.
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Poppy climbed.
Up...
up...
UP!
She reached the top of the yarn.
Then—
WOBBLE!
Poppy slid down the other side.
Wheeeee!
She landed in a soft pile of fabric scraps.
“Again!” she said.
Then she remembered the button.
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Bump-bump-bump!
There it went.
Past Gran’s enormous slipper.
Around a thimble as tall as a bucket.
Straight toward the sewing basket.
Poppy hurried after it.
“Stop, button!”
The button did not stop.
Buttons are not good listeners.
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The purple button bumped the basket.
BOINK!
A spool of ribbon tipped over.
Rrrrrrrroll!
Pink ribbon unrolled across the floor.
The button rolled right onto it.
Poppy grabbed the other end.
“Got you!”
Maybe.
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Poppy pulled the ribbon.
The button rolled toward her.
“Come on...”
She pulled again.
The button rolled closer.
“Come on...”
She pulled once more.
The button rolled—
right past her.
WHOOP!
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Poppy jumped onto the ribbon.
Now the button pulled HER.
Across the floor they went.
Past the slipper.
Past the thimble.
Over the yellow yarn.
Bumpity-bumpity-BUMP!
Poppy held on tight.
“This is NOT how I planned it!”
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The button rolled toward the table leg.
Poppy had an idea.
She tugged the ribbon left.
The button turned left.
She tugged right.
The button turned right.
“Oh!”
Poppy grinned.
“Now we’re getting somewhere.”
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Left around the chair.
Right past the slipper.
Straight through the fabric scraps.
Poppy steered the runaway button across the giant room.
Gran’s hand rested on the floor nearby.
To Poppy, it looked as big as a sofa.
“Gran!” Poppy called.
Gran did not hear.
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Poppy steered the button onto Gran’s slipper.
Up the toe they rolled.
Higher...
higher...
until—
PLOP!
Poppy and the purple button landed in Gran’s lap.
Gran blinked.
Poppy pointed at the button.
“Please press!”
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Gran’s finger came down.
CLICK!
The room shrank.
The chair shrank.
The sewing basket shrank.
Poppy grew.
And grew.
And grew—
until she was exactly Poppy-sized again.
Gran stared at the purple button.
Poppy stared too.
Then Gran put it in a jar with a lid.
A VERY tight lid.
Poppy nodded.
“Good button jar.”
Poppy and the Giant Button
The End
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