The Story of a Butterfly: Learn about the life cycle and habitat of the Painted Lady

by Margaret Rose Reed, Manu Montoya (Illustrator)

Overview

Follow two friends on a class field trip as they visit a butterfly sanctuary and discover the Painted Lady. Learn all about the habitat and life cycle of the Painted Lady from egg to chrysalis to butterfly. There really does seem to be some magic involved!

Parents, teachers and gift givers will find:

• scientifically accurate details on the Painted Lady butterfly
• a topic that aligns with classroom curriculum
• beautiful art and a sweet story
• a book for kids who loved their butterfly garden or growing kit!

Chances are you have heard of the Painted Lady or maybe even raised one at home or in school. This topic is covered in schools in Kindergarten and First grade, and this book will offer a beautiful study on this lovely and popular butterfly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728261430
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	09/06/2022
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,035,216
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.08(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

2022-05-25
Monarchs get most of the attention—but here the spotlight shifts to the equally wonderful and even more common painted lady.

Aside from a mention that caterpillars transform themselves into “goo” in a chrysalis before emerging as adults, the tone of this portrait of Vanessa cardui stands in stark contrast to that of Rosemary Mosco’s Butterflies Are Pretty…Gross! (2021)—focusing instead on the “magic” of metamorphosis and the insect’s life cycle while following two young visitors through a tour of a butterfly house and then on to the creation of a butterfly garden based, as is proper, on locally native plants. Though Reed doesn’t explain how the species’ populations on both sides of the Atlantic can go through long migratory cycles that take several generations to complete (backmatter merely states that migration is “another wonder of nature”), she adds further facts about them, as well as moths and butterflies in general, at the end. Montoya enhances a pair of appended photos with paintings that highlight his fluttery subject’s lovely wing patterns and feature a mix of children and adult helpers in school and garden. Characters are diverse in skin tone and include a hijab wearer and one young student in a wheelchair. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

An oddly rare introduction to a widely distributed butterfly. (Informational picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews

"Two little girls are entranced with the Painted Lady... They even manage to build and plant a Community Butterfly Garden! ...This [book about] the Painted Lady definitely fills a gap." — Youth Services Book Review

"An oddly rare introduction to a widely distributed butterfly" — Kirkus

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