Baby Librarian Marian and her mommy Margaret review the spookily interactive board book Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat by Bill Cotter.
Baby Librarian Marian reviews Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat
Mommy read this to me three times! First at the library, and then two more times at home. In Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat, a monster 
goes trick-or-treating at this spooky house. Or is it a child dressed as a monster? I’m a little confused by this Halloween thing. In the last picture, it shows a bunch of monsters, one of them dressed like an alligator, so I’m guessing these are monsters and not kids, but I could be wrong. I like the alligator costume.
I’m going to Boo at the Zoo as Phantom from Phantom of the Opera, my favorite musical. I wonder if there will be scary houses at Boo at the Zoo, like in the book? Is being scared like when I have a nightmare? If so, I don’t like it. But I am excited about the prospect of candy, though Mommy says I can’t have any. But the monsters in the book look like they love all that candy! I want some! I wonder if I scream really loudly if Mommy will give me some candy? I bet Daddy will.
Mommy Margaret reviews Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat
This is a cute, interactive Halloween board book. On each page, the monster main character prompts the child to interact with the book to continue the story: ring the doorbell, open the door slowly, shout boo to scare the monsters away, etc. I love the idea of the child reader having agency in the storytelling. This would be a great Halloween book for a toddler. Unfortunately, Marian is a bit young for it right now. She did like me shouting “Boo” louder and louder, and one of the times I read it, when I said “Ring the doorbell!” she went and picked up one of her Sesame Street noise books that has an actual doorbell to ring! So she knew what I was saying! But that’s about as interactive as it got, unless you count her grabbing the book away from me.
Don’t Push the Button! is a multi-book series by Bill Cotter, and we’ll definitely be checking out more when Marian’s older.
Our baby librarians have reviewed two other Halloween books, if you want to read more!
Marian, I think your daddy WILL give you candy!
Ha!