Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
by Loree Griffin Burns
photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz
Call # J595.78 Burns
Ever
wonder where butterflies come from? Well, obviously the whole "when a
mommy and daddy butterfly love each other very much" scenario, but I'm
talking about how all those butterflies you see at the Indianapolis Zoo
magically appear there. Burns and Harasimowicz show you through
beautiful pictures and words the butterflies' journey from a tiny egg in
Costa Rica to their forever home in museums and zoos around the world.
The pictures in this book are amazing,
especially considering how hard it can be to photograph bugs. The story
itself wasn't written as well as I would have hopped, considering this
book is a YHBA nominee this year, but it was still decent.
I
would recommend this book to anyone in elementary school who's
interested in butterflies and bugs or who might be doing a project on
the life cycles of insects (the book mentions a few other bugs and their
stages of life along with those of the butterfly). Even younger kids
who can't read yet will enjoy looking at the pictures.
Other read-alikes according to Novelist are: A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston, The Butterfly Alphabet by Kjell Bloch Sandved, and Face to Face with Caterpillars by Darlyne Murawski.
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