FICTION

I Cannot Find My Belly Button!

by Eva Treistman (text) & illus. by Allison Black
Workman. Apr. 2025. 26p. Board $9.99. ISBN 9781523529643.
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Toddler-PreS–An adorable boy who has brown skin believes he has lost his belly button. “There’s a hole where it goes!” Checking body parts from head to toe, he searches for his missing belly button, and soon moves on to searching his home. As his anxiety reaches a breaking point, he decides to ask his big sister for her help. He discovers that his sister has an outie belly button, and he realizes that his own was there the whole time. Large-eyed, round-shaped characters fill the pages as the child searches high and low. Kids will enjoy joining in on the hunt, and this could lead to an age-appropriate discussion of body parts.
VERDICT A highly enjoyable body-part adventure; correctly named body parts in rhyming text will resonate with readers who are interested in their own bodies.
Reviewed by John Scott , Dec 13, 2024

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