Waiting for Wings
'Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies.
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Waiting for Wings
'Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies.
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Waiting for Wings

Waiting for Wings

by Lois Ehlert

Narrated by Crystal Taliefero

Unabridged — 3 minutes

Waiting for Wings

Waiting for Wings

by Lois Ehlert

Narrated by Crystal Taliefero

Unabridged — 3 minutes

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Overview

'Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

...a masterful blend of art and natural science.

Parents Magazine

A college artist with a wondrous command of color and design chronicles the life cycle of butterflies in this visually splendid book. Seeing the larger-than-life images of these flutterers is the next best thing to having one on your shoulder.

Child Magazine

A Child Magazine Best Book of 2001 Pick

A profusion of garden-bright color greets young naturalists curious to learn more about the life cycle of butterflies. The pages start out small when the focus is on caterpillars, then expand to accommodate the winged beauties. A vibrant afterword includes butterfly and flower facts.

Kirkus Reviews

With each spread opening to an explosion of bright, gorgeous color, Ehlert (Market Day, 2000, etc.) takes a close-up look at the life stages of four butterflies, all of which are seen amidst a profusion of the plant life on which they subsist. Several shorter split pages, lining up with the stems and flowers on the standard-sized pages add extra measures of suspense and surprise as the author tracks her subjects' physical changes. The next set includes long, narrow pages that follow the flight to the flower garden. There, readers will need sunglasses to view the extravagantly hued varieties of butterfly-attracting flowers. Finished with the story, fanciers will find two pages on identification, more detailed descriptive information, and advice about starting a butterfly garden. (But don't remove those sunglasses.) Unfortunately, the main text-a singsong jingle-doesn't measure up to the eye-popping art. In order to serve the rhyme, Ehlert repeatedly has her butterflies "eat" nectar, even though, as explained in the appendix, they actually drink it-but this still makes a riveting introduction to the science and (visually at least) the poetry of these splendidly attired insects. (Picture book/nonfiction. 4-7)

Product Details

BN ID: 2940171760724
Publisher: Weston Woods
Publication date: 01/01/2002
Edition description: Unabridged
Age Range: 5 - 8 Years
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