Emma in the Land of Buttons

Ulrike Rylance’s Emma in the Land of Buttons is that rare thing – a fairy tale that is very funny and slily profound at the same time. Reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, this roller coaster ride through the Land of Buttons will have kids listening with bated breaths while those adults who read them the story will time and again snigger with delight.

Over the holidays Emma’s staying with her cranky Uncle Hubert and Aunt Mechthild. In their huge house they keep a marvellous collection of things you can get for free such as used tickets, snail shells, fountain ball pens… Then one evening Emma enters the Button Room, and suddenly a big gold button starts talking to her. When Emma touches it – lo and behold! – she shrinks to button size and finds herself in the Land of Buttons.

No sooner has she arrived than the Button Police are after her in hot pursuit – it is their job, after all, to persecute all Non-Buttons. And it was big, stuck-up Isolde, the gold button, who set them on. Luckily Emma meets Louise, a silver button, and Gustav, a mother-of-pearl button, who help her to find her way back to the world of humans. That marks the beginning of a thrill-a-minute journey through the Land of Buttons.

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