With a Click of a Button

Jul 17, 2026

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A mother named Rose lives on a small quiet farm near Rose Hill with her five children, hens, and her cat Ken. Each day she wakes at dawn, feeds the hens, prepares breakfast, takes the children to school, and sells eggs before returning to cook lunch. After the children grow up and leave, Rose continues her routine, waiting for summer visits. In the evenings, her old red rotary phone keeps ringing as her sons call one after another.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages29

Reading Time45 min

Rose’s Daily Routine

The Children Leave

Waiting for Summer Visits

The Evening Phone Calls

With a Click of a Button Author: Alaa Alian Illustrator: Hossam Aldeen Al-Kileeny English With a Click of a Button Written by Alaa Olayyan. Images by Husameddine Al-Qaliny. © Asafeer Education Technologies FZ LLC, 2018. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. English United States Copyright © Asafeer Education Technologies FZ LLC, 2018 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[ ](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc. The original work of this book was made possible through the generous support of the All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) Partners (the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Vision, and the Australian Government) . It was prepared by Asafeer Education Technologies FZ LLC and does not necessarily reflect the views of the ACR GCD Partners. Any adaptation or translation of this work should not be considered an official ACR GCD translation and ACR GCD shall not be liable for any content or error in this translation. Near the village of Rose Hill lives Rose, on her small, quiet farm with her five children, her hens and her cat Ken. Every day at dawn, Rose wakes up and feeds her hensand prepares breakfast for her children. She takes them to school and then goes to the market to sell eggs. Then she goes back to the farm to make lunch for them. Rose did this year after year until… Her children were all grown. And one by one, they left. Then Rose was all alone with her hens and her cat, Ken. She still wakes at dawn to feed her hens, prepare breakfast and water her plants. She continued her routine, just waiting for summer, when her children would come visit her. In the evenings, her old red rotary phone never stops ringing. Her sons all call her, one after the other. Until

FAQs

Who is the main character and where does she live?

Rose lives near the village of Rose Hill on a small farm with her hens and her cat Ken.

What does Rose do every day?

She wakes at dawn to feed the hens, prepares breakfast, takes her children to school, then sells eggs and returns to prepare lunch.

What changes after her children grow up?

Her children gradually leave, so Rose becomes alone but keeps following her routine while waiting for summer visits.

Jul 17, 2026

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