Review by Booklist Review
Gr. 1^-2. This colorful volume from the All Aboard Reading Series uses relatively simple words to discuss butterflies. The text explains butterflies physical kinship with other insects and presents the life cycle of a butterfly as well as camouflage, migration, and the differences between butterflies and moths. The illustrations, which combine elements of painting and cut-paper collage, create various effects, from a landscape conveying levels of depth to a large-scale butterfly isolated against a white background. Though the information presented is quite limited, librarians may want to have this on hand for beginning readers who prefer nonfiction. --Carolyn Phelan
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Review by Horn Book Review
Using short sentences and uncomplicated language, this concise text introduces beginning readers to butterflies--their physical characteristics, habitat, diet, life cycle, and even their migratory habits and how they differ from moths. But it's Broda's exquisite three-dimensional crafted paper scenes, which depict dozens of butterfly patterns in amazing detail, that will have nature lovers returning to this book again and again. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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