The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Neye, Emily

Butterflies

32 pp. | Grosset | May, 2000 | Library ISBN 0-448-42280-8 $$13.89 | Paper ISBN 0-448-41966-1 $$3.99

(3) K-3 All Aboard Reading series. Illustrated by Ron Broda. Using short sentences and uncomplicated language, this concise text introduces beginning readers to butterflies--their physical characteristics, habitat, diet, life cycle, and even their migratory habits and how they differ from moths. But it's Broda's exquisite three-dimensional crafted paper scenes, which depict dozens of butterfly patterns in amazing detail, that will have nature lovers returning to this book again and again.

Reviewer: Emma Loy-Santelli