Booklist Review

Look, butterflies! Following the flittering, fluttering, flashing creatures through the colorful pages, children will learn about butterfly habits and attributes. Lunching with butterflies reveals a diet of fresh and rotting fruit, flowers, and bugs. Double-page spreads filled with colorful photographs illustrate information about keeping dry, staying safe from enemies, butterfly colors, and reproduction cycles. Appended material includes the life cycle of the butterfly, a spy-the-butterfly activity, and instructions for a butterfly garden. Using strong action verbs such as snatch, munch, and nab and onomatopoeic words typical of butterfly movement, this slim book will catch readers not just with images but also with the sound of its words. Part of the Explore My World series. Pair this with From Caterpillar to Butterfly, by Deborah Heiligman (1996).--Edmundson, Martha Copyright 2014 Booklist