Butterfly House
by Eve Bunting
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Author: Eve BuntingIllustrator: Greg Shed
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-01
ISBN: 0590848844
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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- ISBN13: 9780590848848
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Butterfly House
Book Review: WELL DONE CHILDREN'S BOOK. A PURE JOY TO READ AND VIEW.
Summary: 5 Stars
What a beautiful story. A little girl finds and saves a tiny "worm" from a hungry Jay. She takes the caterpillar to her grandfather, who then helps her build a butterfly box. They decorate it together, and eventually, when the butterfly breaks out of its cocoon and becomes a beautiful butterfly, they let it go back into the wild, their garden.
This is rather a simple story at first glance. The art work by Greg Shed can only be described as "delicious." Soft colors, well blended and mellow, along with very accurate details of flowers and wildlife, make this book a treasure to view. Like so many children's books, the pictures can be enjoyed, even without reading the words.
Now as to the text is this particular book. I found it absolutely delightful. More prose that anything else, it not only precisely informs as to how to raise a butterfly, but it very well illustrates the love between the grandfather and granddaughter. Now I am not as sophisticated as those folks who write for Publisher's Weekly, who's almost incoherent review seemed to feel the syntax was a bit "treacly." I found nothing overly sweet or cloying what-so-ever. I do hope I never become so sophisticated either. How boring! I suppose that lines such as "How strange to think my grandpa once was young like me. " We would have been best friends if I'd been there back then," I said. My grandpa smiled. "It worked out anyhow, we're best friends now," was a bit over the top for them.
Anyway, when the little girl grows up, she lives in the same house her grandpa did. Her garden is just as beautiful and is filled with butterflies each year. She, an old woman now, feels the butterflies have told generation after generation of other butterflies how she saved one of their own, years ago, ergo, that is why the older lady now has more butterflies in her garden than anyone else in the area.
The book concludes with detailed instructions on how to raise butterflies, how to build a butterfly house and what to do after they have "hatched."
I liked this work. The kids I read it to liked it and I do highly recommend it.
Butterfly House
D. Blankenship
Summary of Butterfly House
With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free. And when the girl grows old, the butterflies come back to return her kindness.Bugs & Spiders Books
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