Best Butterfly Books
Butterfly Alphabet: Photographs
By Kjell Bloch Sandved
The author traveled for 20 years through 30 countries to find hidden letters on moth and butterfly wings. Sandved has given us this collection of beautiful close-up photographs of 26 butterfly wings whose patterns reveal a stunning array of letters.
Monarch Magic!: Butterfly Activities and Nature Discoveries
By Lynn Rosenblatt
This book's stunning photos take children on a tour of the majestic monarch's life cycle. Kids can learn to raise and release butterflies, chart the monarch's migration across North America, and create their own wing symmetry. Over 40 butterfly activities in all.
Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly
By Laurence Pringle, Bob Marstall (Illustrator)
Your kids will learn the life cycle, feeding habits, migration, predators, and mating of the monarch butterfly through the observation of one particular monarch named Danaus.
Butterfly Book: An Easy Guide to Butterfly Gardening, Identification, and Behavior
By Donald Stokes, Ernest Williams, Lillian Stokes
This is a popular guide to attracting, identifying, and enjoying all the common North American butterfly species, includes dozens of maps, photos, and two sample garden plans.
Butterflies and Moths
By David Carter, Frank Greenaway (Photographer)
Does your child love looking at pictures of butterflies? Then pick up the Eyewitness Handbook of Butterflies and Moths. It's packed with more than 600 vivid full-color photographs.
Fiction Books
Alula-Belle Blows into Town
By Marie Chapian
Picture this: Eight-year-old Alula-Belle Button-top Paintbrush Puccini Softshoe Magrew shows up in the middle of Main Street in the town of KneeBend-on-Limber surrounded by millions of butterflies and changes the lives of everyone she meets.
Butterfly Boy
By Laurence Yep, Jeanne M. Lee (Photographer)
Ages: 4-7
Inspired by a tale of the fourth century B.C. writings of ancient Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu, a young boy dreams that he is a butterfly, and as a butterfly, he dreams that he is a boy.
Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
Ages: 4-8
This classic book stars a very hungry caterpillar who literally eats his way through the book. A must-read for the little ones.
