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From Caterpillar to Butterfly
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From Caterpillar to Butterfly Hardcover - 1996

by Deborah Heiligman; Bari Weissman (Illustrator)

A caterpillar comes to school in a jar, but a few weeks later a beautiful butterfly flies out! This is a perfect beginner's guide to the mystery of metamorphosis. Full color.


From the publisher

Read and find out about how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

After a caterpillar comes to school in a jar, the children are captivated as it eats, grows, and eventually becomes a beautiful Painted Lady butterfly.

This is a clear and appealing environmental science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. Plus it includes web research prompts and an activity encouraging kids to identify the different types of butterflies all around them.

This is a Level 1 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores introductory concepts perfect for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

    hands-on and visualacclaimed and trustedgreat for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

    Entertain and educate at the same timeHave appealing, child-centered topicsDevelopmentally appropriate for emerging readersFocused; answering questions instead of using survey approachEmploy engaging picture book quality illustrationsUse simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skillsFeature hands-on activities to engage young scientistsMeet national science education standardsWritten/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the fieldOver 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests

Book in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

From the rear cover

Where did the caterpillar go?

It seems to have disappeared, but it hasn't. It has turned into a butterfly! From the time a caterpillar first hatches, it eats so fast that it's skin can't keep up. It sheds its skin several times as it grows bigger and bigger. Eventually it forms a shell around itself called a chrysalis. Nothing seems to happen for a long time. But then one day the chrysalis splits open, and a beautiful butterfly emerges. What a magical metamorphosis!

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  • Title From Caterpillar to Butterfly
  • Author Deborah Heiligman; Bari Weissman (Illustrator)
  • Series Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins
  • Date 1996-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780060242640 / 0060242647
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.42 x 8.2 x 0.35 in (26.47 x 20.83 x 0.89 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 490
  • Library of Congress subjects Caterpillars - Juvenile literature, Caterpillars
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93039055
  • Dewey Decimal Code 595.789

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Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/1996, Page 341
  • School Library Journal, 08/01/1998, Page 0
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