by Bill Cotter
Brief and mischievous, Don't Push the Button! is a picture-book gag built around a single running joke: a loud warning not to press a tempting button and the chaos that follows when someone can't resist. It shines as a read-aloud where timing, voice, and audience participation sell every page-turn. Its useful part is immediacy — quick laughs and repeat-read appeal for toddlers. Limitation: the joke is narrow and repetitive, so adults or older children may tire of the premise after a few reads.
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There's only one rule in Larry's book: don't push the button.(Seriously, don't even think about it!)Even if it does look kind of nice, you must never push the button. Who knows what would happenOkay, quick. No one is looking... push the button.Uh, oh....
Difficulty:easy
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appears in For 3 Year Olds, Children's, and Fiction.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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