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40 pp.
| Philomel |
March, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-24797-2$15.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Gaye Chapman.
This book dwells on life, death, and beauty using a butterfly's life as metaphor. When the Lord of Flight tells little girl Kaito that butterfly season is over, she finds a way to continue the beauty of flight by creating butterfly wings with cloth, spiders' silk, and bamboo twigs. The meticulously detailed angular illustrations echoing Japanese paintings are beautiful but busy.