
If You Want to Be a Butterfly
Muon Thi Van(Author)
Kids Can Press
Published on 3. October 2023
Book
Hardback
40 pages
978-1-5253-0546-7 (ISBN)
Description
An innovative exploration of a butterfly's life cycle --- in reverse. "If you want to be a butterfly, then arise, unfurl and welcome the waiting world," begins this book's narrator. Readers will flit from flower to flower with an adorable butterfly ... hold on tight with a chrysalis through all sorts of weather ... munch away with a greedy little caterpillar ... sit very, very still and dream big with a teeny tiny egg. It's a magical journey back in time, that ends ... at the beginning! Imaginations will be sparked by the active depictions --- freeing the butterfly in every child.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
West Toronto
Canada
Target group
Children/juvenile
Reading Age: From 3 to 7 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
40 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 287 mm
Width: 225 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5253-0546-7 (9781525305467)
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Muon Thi Van loves to read books of all shapes and sizes. She first began reading yellow-spined hardbacks about a certain girl detective before graduating to longer novels and then picture books (it's true, she doesn't remember reading picture books as a young child). So few books reflected her formative experiences, though, that she desired to bring new and different stories into the world. Muon has written many picture books for children, including Wishes, If You Were Night and One Is a Lot, and her books have received many distinctions and awards. She lives in Northern California with her family.
Andrea Armstrong is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She specializes in character-driven art, children's book illustration, portraiture and, more recently, animation.
Andrea Armstrong is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She specializes in character-driven art, children's book illustration, portraiture and, more recently, animation.