They were so excited when Pete the Cat appeared on my hand. We sang about the buttons as "Pete" acted out the story, then sang about his white shoes (only we stepped in much more than the book). Love his little jacket. The very literal children, however, did think all his buttons should pop off. I agree. I arranged my hand to show only the proper number of buttons as we sang the story and 'hid' the Velcro button on top of on of the others.