Title:
A Butterfly is Patient
Author:
Dianna Aston
Illustrator:
Sylvia Long
Publishing
Company: Chronicle Books LLC
Copyright
Date: 2011
#
of Pages: 28
Genre/
Category: Nonfiction
I chose this book because I liked
that it was a nonfiction book without photographs. This book teaches children
about different types of butterflies. It uses headings to tell what the page
will be about, such as “The Butterfly is Helpful.” This page then talks about
how butterflies help by pollinating flowers. It explains the life cycle of a
butterfly, and it talks about different things that butterflies do.
Sylvia Long uses beautiful
watercolors to paint the butterflies in this book. The colors portray the
butterflies accurately, and the illustrations almost do not look like
watercolors to me. They seem heavier than watercolors. Most of the pages are
two page spreads with informal text. I love that each butterfly, caterpillar,
and egg is labeled with a name.
This book is appropriate for
children ages 4-8. The text is not too difficult, but older students could
learn more about the names of butterflies. This book would be wonderful when
studying life cycles. It does not only tell the life cycle of the butterfly,
but it also gives interesting information about butterflies. Students could
each choose a certain butterfly and complete a research project on it. They
could present their findings to the class through a Power Point presentation or
a poster. This book could also be used
as a vocabulary lesson. There are several words that only pertain to
butterflies, but there are also strong descriptive words that students might
not understand. This book talks about how caterpillars must wait patiently to
become butterflies, so students could even write about a time that they had to
be patient.
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