The Butterfly Garden

by Laura Weston, Laura Weston (Illustrator)

Overview

A monarch butterfly's life cycle comes to life in this beautiful lift-the-flap book.

An egg, a feast, a transformation . . .
The fascinating life cycle of the monarch butterfly is illuminated in this special lift-the-flap book with illustrations from printmaker Laura Weston. Told in simple language with black-and-white illustrations, the book's many flaps reveal flashes of exquisite color. Watch the monarch butterfly’s metamorphosis from egg to caterpillar to butterfly, then go on an incredible journey as it migrates for winter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763693176
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	04/11/2017
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	12
Product dimensions:	7.06(w) x 11.62(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Laura Weston lives by a marine lake, where oyster catchers dabble and boats bob. She likes the ocean, but she really loves drawing and painting anything with wings, petals, leaves, feathers, or fur! This is her first picture book. When she's not making art, she likes to teach others all about it.

Editorial Reviews

Best for one-on-one reading and exploration with conversations, this tall and artistic board book brings together mystery, surprise, and wonder for children and adults alike.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Elegant black-and-white print tableaux.
—The Wall Street Journal

From the Publisher

★ 2017-06-14
This debut lift-the-flap book by printmaker Weston follows the life cycle of a monarch butterfly with detailed black-and-white illustrations and flaps that reveal flashes of brilliant orange, yellow, purple, and green.The stunning black-and-white images are precise and meticulous, with a woodcut feel, and the brightly colored undersides of the flaps bring the liveliness of the outdoors into the book. Information about the butterfly's metamorphosis is conveyed more through flashes of color under the flaps than in the spare poetic text, limited to the deliberate choice of a couple of words per page ("An egg / a feast // a change / a stretch"). Each page features a number of flaps, showing the butterfly in its various stages of metamorphosis, migration, and hibernation. A variety of plants and their flowers that serve as hosts for the monarchs and food for their caterpillars as well as a place for their hibernation are shown, but no additional information is included. Young toddlers may have difficulty in finding and manipulating the flaps at first, but they will be awed by what they reveal. Best for one-on-one reading and exploration with conversations, this tall and artistic board book brings together mystery, surprise, and wonder for children and adults alike. (Board book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews