Butterfly Blink

(STEM) "Entranced me...fascinating concept...luscious colors...stunning illustrations." - Jean B. Yates, Vine Voice Reviewer. Follow the stages of a monarch butterfly from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. With each blink the butterflies multiply (until a playful dog disperses them).

Includes Pacific Islander/Polynesian child plus information on special concern species and insect habitat conservation. Children love to make up/write stories for the colorful illustrations by award-winning author/illustrator and media professor Karl Beckstrand (Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm-see 60+ multicultural books-click Karl Beckstrand above. Ages 2 - 6/preschool to first grade, Emergent Reader/Fountas & Pinnell: A, DRA: 1).

Winner: Promoting Picture Books' Art Cover Contest. Diverse wordless book activities include finding and naming insects and characters and cementing vocabulary by describing the action or writing a story. Blink and there's more-blink and they're gone! Other books in this wordless book series: Polar Bear Bowler and Gopher Golf.

The perfect length book for kids (not too long for adults): 24 pages. Get this pollinator/insect book in hard cover, soft cover, and e-book versions today. 8"x10", full-color perfect bound kids' gift book about butterflies (beginning reader), Premio Publishing & Gozo Books (Stories Without Words series #2, worldwide rights April 2016) PremioBooks, Baker & Taylor, B&N, Brodart, Follett, Gardner's, Herzberg/Perma-bound, Ingram, Biblio/EBSCO/ibooks/Kobo/Mackin/Smash/SCRIBD, libraries, Target and Walmart online. LCCN: 2016931905, JNF003250, JNF003060, JUV009080, JNF029040, JNF037020, JUV002300, JUV002070, JNF003120, JNF051150, JUV010000, hard ISBN: 978-1951599010, soft: 978-0692648599 (ebook ISBN: 978-1311095978)