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The Butterfly: A Fable

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Mickey Mouse, Harry Potter, Shrek--not really; but this fable would make a great Walt Disney flic! My children can't stop reading it. A real page turner!

The author has the heart of a child! He made me realize how absurd the rat race is and how frantic life has become where we hardly have time to know our children, our friends, ourselves. How we forfeit our chance to become a real butterfly for a mere butterfly suit in our retirement. Makes you wonder if our reason for being is to jump headlong in a race our parents ignorantly put us in or to take a step back and set off on a journey of discovery? To race or to discover, that, my friends, is the question! Really enjoyed this book and you will, too.

I never knew caterpillars had to find a specific plant to turn into a butterfly. That's amazing to me. I always thought they just ate leaves, twigs, peat moss, floor junk, or whatever. Maybe what a person does with his or her life is as important as the "food plant" is to the caterpillar. If the caterpillar doesn't take the time to find its food plant, it will never turn into a butterfly. Likewise, if a person doesn't take the time to discover his calling maybe his or her soul will never grow. I love the message that we're all here to grow and I especially loved how the author showed how the things we think are set up to help us (government, schools, corporations) are really there to distract us from our true calling. And the idea that smiles reveal the genuine soul is just a really nice idea. But it's true, isn't it? You can tell a lot by a smile. You can tell if a person is satisfied or dissatisfied with his or her life. The smile really is everything. And those who are dissatisfied are in fact "smile-holes" and like black holes swallow planets and stars, smile-holes swallow the happiness and joy out of everyone around them. Well, that's been my experience. In the end, I just loved this book! There is something really important being said here and I wish everyone would read it.

The caterpillar leaves the Silk Palace. The caterpillar learns about the forest. The caterpillar meets a lot of strange characters who teach her many things. THe caterpillar searches for the last real butterfly. So fun you shouldn't wait for the cartoon. Read it!!!

You can't miss this one, it's a must, along with the New Harry Potter! This is one of the those books you just know the author had a lot of writing. It's no wonder it's the next big annimation picture.

SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
I love this book! It is so awesome. Singh really leaves you hanging. You never know what will jump out at you next.

It's as simple as this-I just bought a copy for every Sikh I know. If it was within my means, I would have bought a thousand and donated it to the gurdwara to give to all the children. The story, and I'm surprised no Sikh has mentioned this yet, alludes-100%-to Guru Nanak's life.

You wanna laugh, don't miss this one. I don't know about what the others are talking about, I didn't get any deep meanings out of this. But what I did get was great entertainment. get this one for your collection. Also nice to add to your collection are: Aesop for Children (Winter), Grimm's complete fairy tales (Grimm), Great Children's stories (Richardson). There are many other great children's books out there, but these were the ones I enjoyed the most. Oh, and I almost forgot the two classics that no children should ever be deprived of: The Little Prince (Exupery) and Charlotte's Web (White).

A brilliant story of contemporary philosophy which draws upon fable, fairy tale, and mythology-as well as modern aesthetic and mathematical thought. Even more brilliant is the style in which it was written, a literary equivalent to Cubism with all sorts of pleasant repetitions and poetic phrases. If Picasso had been a writer, I imagine him writing something like this, although he probably would have stayed away from caterpillars and butterflies, especially pink and blue ones.

The only writer who has made me laugh and cry in the same book. It can be slow at times,but trust me, stick with it! I have recommended it to many others who have told me how they laughed out loud and even cried in cafes, getting a whole lot of other people interested in the book. Now I see why so many people are enjoying and talking about what is but a simple tale of a caterpillar searching for its food plant. I think my only problem with the book is that the author didn't give the caterpillar a name. I think this bothered a lot of people. Poor thing needs a name. Instead she is always referred to as THE BRAVE LITTLE CATERPILLAR. It's tedious and tiring and I wish he had given her a name, any name, couldn't have been that hard. Personally I would have named her. But that's not reason enough to bash a book that has won the heart of so many young Asians. And if great art bears true witness to an experience, I think Singh has quite honestly captured the ambitions and anxieties, the experience, of second generation American Asians, be they Indian, Korean, or Japanese. Myself I had a dad who ever since I was a child would sneak into my room while I was sleeping and whisper, in my ear, 'Doctor, doctor, I want to be a doctor,' in a sad and futile hope to subliminally mold my dreams and desires. But when he saw that wasn't working, it was sort of forced upon me and sadly this was for his own ego. So now for his ego I truly believe I'm wasting my time studying something I really don't want to be studying. But, slowly but surely, I'm summoning up the courage to leave the 'Silk Palace' and pursue my 'food plant' whatever it may be. I admittedly don't know yet. But that's more because I regrettably let someone else define my life. In writing this, I see and feel how powerful this book is and I look forward to anything else this author has to say.