The Butterfly Book: A Kid's Guide to Attracting, Raising, and Keeping Butterflies (Paperback)

by Kersten Hamilton (Author) "Understanding a butterfly's life cycle, or the changes it goes through, will help you find butterflies to watch and to raise..." (more)

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Gr. 3^-6. Hamilton's wide-format paperback surveys the life stages, body structures, and habits of butterflies. Readers interested in raising butterflies from egg, caterpillar, or chrysalis will find useful information on the safe handling and temporary keeping of butterflies before returning them to the wild. For instance, Hamilton warns not to keep butterflies in glass jars, where they can injure their wings. She also shows how to mend a broken wing. Readers uninterested in hunting butterflies will find good advice for attracting them to the garden by raising the plants they depend on, avoiding the use of insecticides, and providing appropriate food, water, and shelter. A field guide identifies 20 butterflies common to North America, their larval food plants, and their habitat zones. Full-color photographs and ink drawings with watercolor washes illustrate the text. Full of intriguing facts presented in a readable way, this guide will appeal to children studying butterflies in the classroom or the backyard. Carolyn Phelan

Product Description
An introduction to the life cycle, food, habitat, and behavior of butterflies shares advice on butterfly observation and conservation, explaining how to design a garden to attract butterflies and offering a color identification guide to twenty common North American butterflies. Original."

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 1st edition (March 26, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156261309X
• ISBN-13: 978-1562613099
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #219,393 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A how-to and why book for butterflies, April 13, 1999

By A Customer

I'll share the review I wrote for The Home School Manual ========

A Kid's Guide to Attracting, Raising, and Keeping Butterflies. In addition to practical information, this attractive, 40-page book has interesting science information. For example, chemical sensors on butterfly feet allow them to "taste" leaves. 21 species are described with the regions of the US and Southern Canada where they may be found. One sentence I disagree with is. "No one knows why the dinosaurs died out. . . ." 1997, from John Muir Publications

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Companion to "Butterfly Garden", October 17, 2007

By	L.A. Young "Amazon Fan" (Ventura, CA) - See all my reviews

Wonderful kids book on "raising" caterpillars. I purchased this to go with the Insectlore Live Butterfly Garden with 5 Butterfly Certificate I also bought from Amazon.com The book enhanced my first butterfly-raising experience... and I'm an adult. The book also describes how to make a container to watch your caterpillars turn into butterflies but I prefer and totally enjoyed my Butterfly Garden.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Butterfly Book: A kid's guide to Attracting, Raising and keeping Butterflies, August 24, 2008

By	twigsoap "twigsoap" (southern, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

Great book! We have it for the older kids (4th grade up) in the family to learn about butterflies for school science projects and home fun. Easy to read to the younger members of the family with lots of pictures.