Bone Button Borscht

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Kids Can Press, 1995 - Juvenile Fiction - 30 pages
When the townspeople turn away a hungry beggar, he removes five bone buttons from his threadbare coat and announces that he can make a "miracle soup"--enough to feed the whole town--with just one more button. Subtle watercolor illustrations mirror the gradual warming of the town as the beggar brings the people together to create the most delicious bone button borscht they have ever tasted. Full color.

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Aubrey Davis was born on June 28, 1937, in Canada. He started writing and performing his works in 1970. His award-winning children's books includes A Hen for Izzy Pippik (2012). Bagels for Benny (2003), Bone Button Borscht (1995), and The Enormous Potato (1997). He has conducted workshops throughout Canada and the United States. He also, told stories and performed them. His first published book was Bone Bottom Borscht (1995). It was published by Kids Can Press. Davis also helped create the Institute of Cross-Cultural Exchange. They donated millions of books to children in Canada and Afghanistan. He volunteered for The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge. It is a charitable educational organization. Dedicated to cross-cultural understanding. It brings research on human nature to the general public. Aubrey Davis died on June 2, 2022. Dusan Petric is an award-winning children's book designer and illustrator whose books include The Enormous Potato and Lickety-Split. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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