Butterflies Fly - Hardcover

Winer, Yvonne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157091446X ISBN 13: 9781570914461

Publisher: Charlesbridge Pub Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Combines paintings and verses to show fifteen butterflies in their natural environment.

About this title

About the Author:

Author Yvonne Winer has written twenty children's books. Yvonne lives in Queensland, Australia, with her two cats, possums, wallabies, bandicoots, king parrots, and plenty of lorikeets.

Illustrator: Karen Lloyd-Jones

Karen Lloyd-Jones received the 1997 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Books for Spiders Spin Webs, her first picture book.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-5-As in their Spiders Spin Webs (Charlesbridge, 1998), Winer and Lloyd-Jones combine light verses with visually gorgeous paintings. Each picture features one of 15 types of butterflies in its natural environment. Unfortunately, the verses, all concluding with a variation of the refrain "That's how butterflies fly," are not as illuminating as the realistic artwork. Lines like "Butterflies glide/By meandering streams,/Reflecting the world/In colorful dreams./That's how butterflies fly" do little to express the wonder of the creatures. The book concludes with an identification guide to the featured butterflies and a list of recommended reading and Web sites. Field guides like Paul Opler's Peterson First Guide to Butterflies and Moths (Houghton, 1994; o.p.) or the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies (Knopf, 1981; o.p.) offer better insect science. Douglas Florian's Insectlopedia (Harcourt, 1998) and Paul Fleischman's Joyful Noise (HarperCollins, 1988) offer better insect poetry.
Kathleen Whalin, Greenwich Country Day School, CT
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charlesbridge Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 157091446X
• ISBN 13: 9781570914461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Lloyd-Jones Karen