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K-3Dorling Kindersley Readers series.
Wallace explains the life cycle of the butterfly by focusing first on a female laying eggs. One egg hatches, and the caterpillar matures and eventually becomes a butterfly with eggs of her own to lay. The cropped, close-up color photographs are sometimes unclear, but repetition and picture word boxes will help beginning readers through some of the longer words and sentences.