Today, October 21, is Count Your Buttons Day. :-) It sounded like a fun trail and this is what I found.

The Collector's Encyclopedia of Buttons (Revised 5th Edition), by Sally C. Luscomb is exactly what it says it is ... pages and pages of buttons and descriptions from across the centuries. I wish the pictures were in color, but the black and white images were clear. I was amazed at the intricate detail on the buttons with images or pictures.

I waffled in the placement of this book ... I ended up putting it with my button post, but it would also fit nicely with any post on 'books'. Or perhaps, more on the 'underwear' trail of the post from August 5. Hmm, or with the fork (March 26, 2015). At any rate Books, Banks, Buttons and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages, by Chiara Frugoni and translated by William McCuaig certainly would have made some of my history classes more interesting. So many useful items here! Eyeglasses made reading easier while moveable type made the printing of books easier. The zero made math easier, although much like the author, I cannot explain just why, only that it is so! Cards, and hence the games that used them gained popularity. And buttons! What an improvement!

Naturally, there is a mystery involving buttons: Buttons and Bones, by Monica Ferris. It is one from her Needlecraft Mystery series. Anew family moves into a cabin on the lake (it seems any lake is 'the lake' in Minnesota). They pull up the old linoleum and discover a trap door to the root cellar, where (naturally) they find a skeleton. How to buttons help figure out who it belonged to?

And yes, I did think about political buttons, but they were no books available locally that I could access in time for this post. ;-)

And of course, in my usual twisted way, I had to include Belly Button Book! by Sandra Boynton. Hippos with belly buttons ... hard to resist!

And, from the September 27, 2014 post, there is How to Sew a Button.

Reading Hermit With Dog