Ruth Heller's How to Hide a Butterfly & Other Insects (All Aboard Book) - Softcover

Heller, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 044840477X ISBN 13: 9780448404776

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1992

Synopsis

Go on a fascinating nature hunt to find the butterflies, bees, inchworms, and other intriguing insects hiding in the brilliantly-painted pages of this book.

About this title

About the Author:

After receiving a fine arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and completing two years of graduate work in design at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Ruth Heller (1923-2004) began her career designing wrapping paper, cocktail napkins, greeting cards, and coloring books. After five years of rejection and one complete revision, Heller's first book, Chickens Aren't the Only Ones, about egg-laying animals, was published in 1981. It was so successful that the sequel, and second book to be published, Animals Born Alive And Well (1982), about mammals, quickly followed. In 1983 and 1984, her third and fourth titles, The Reason For A Flower (about plants that have seeds and flowers) and Plants That Never Ever Bloom (about plants that do not) were published.

She then began work on a collection of six books, the How To Hide series on camouflage and the magic of this phenomenon in nature, which covered the entire animal kingdom -- insects, birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and sea creatures. The next collection of books became a five-volume series on parts of speech: A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns; Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs; Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives; Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns; and Up, Up and Away: A Book About Adverbs. She also wrote and illustrated the unique and fascinating book Color, a charming and instructive guide to how art goes through the four color printing process.

Among the notable people who have had an influence on Heller's writing have been: Ogden Nash, Gilbert and Sullivan, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, and Dr. Seuss. Heller says of her work, "All my books are nonfiction picture books in rhyme. I find writing in rhyme enjoyable and challenging, and I think it is an easy way for children to learn new facts and acquire a sophisticated vocabulary. Children are not intimidated by big words. I try to make my writing succinct and allow the illustrations to convey as much information as possible."

From School Library Journal:

ea. vol: illus. by author. unpaged. Grosset. Oct. 1985. PSm $4.95. PreSchool-Grade 2 The rhyming texts and brilliant illustrations of these small picture books provide youngsters with the opportunity to find camouflaged insects and animals, while they introduce new words, such as grotesque and bizarre. How to Hide a Butterfly includes a butterfly that looks like a leaf and an inchworm that looks like a twig. In . . .Octopus, Heller writes, "The/ DECORATOR CRAB/ is drab/ and/ will not rest/ until its dressed,/ so/ it proceeds/ to don/ some/ weeds/ and barnacles/ and sponge,/ you/ see,/ and/ even/ an. . ./ anemone." . . . Polar Bear offers familiar mammals for children to locate against their natural backgrounds. Illustrations are bright, detailed, and sure to appeal to children. These three books would be a welcome addition to a library's science section. Zenata W. Pierre, Portland Public Schools, Oreg.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 044840477X
• ISBN 13: 9780448404776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32