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Disney's Little Einsteins: Butterfly Suits

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This book is great way for kids to learn about bugs and metamorphosis. My daughter loves this show on the Disney Channel, and I'm so glad to see they finally have books for them! The characters are delightful and teach kids about art, science, and music in fun and exciting ways. Plus, I loved that it included a sheet of Little Einsteins stickers--very cool!!

This book is in a slightly different vein to the ones that include the rocket magnifying glass - but we love it! It ties in really well to the DVD and follows the story with lots of room for following up ideas, active participation by your child and for reinforcing the correct terminology! I great science-y book that doesn't dumb down ideas for kids. How can this not succeed? We love the introduction to science, art, music, geography that the DVD/TV programmes provide - and this book builds on that. A 'must' for any kids who are into Little Einsteins!My daughter is onnly 2 and 4 months but requests this book again and again and has already memorised several pages!

My 3-yr-old daughter loves the Little Einsteins. She was so excited when she got the book. However, reading the book to her was difficult. It's very long and wordy and a little hard to follow. She likes the pictures and if I simplfy it as I read it, she loves it. I do recommend it for an older preschooler or even a younger school aged child. It covers metamorphasis and can be used to supplement that learning in school.

Okay, I rate this book as okay. ONLY okay. I'm not on the "ridiculous" soapbox, but I am disappointed. I agree that most Little Einstein books are excellent. We also enjoy the shows. Further, it's a cartoon designed to educate AND entertain. Little Einsteins does all of this. BUT, and perhaps it is because I am used to such high standards from Little Einsteins, Butterfly Suits DOES fall short of what I'd expect. Monarch Butterfly caterpillars eat milkweed. ONLY milkweed. (I must admit, I'd not have bought the book if my daughter hadn't removed two of the stickers from the back and applied them to her shirt... Lesson there!) I just thought that monarch butterflies eating milkweed was just like--common knowledge. I like what the book does cover with the metamorphosis, that he rides in a truck is okay. AGAIN, it is fantasy, and this is an element that the kids can differentiate as such, but the fact that the catterpillar is eating a fall elm tree seems misleading. Couldn't he have just gone to the colorful musical milkweed plant instead, with flowers around instead of fall trees? And one more nit-picky thing: if they were taking the caterpillar in Rocket to the tree, why is he not in the Rocket picture? My 3-year-old looked all over the pages for him--and was disappointed. Bottom line, they go to so much trouble to do it right usually, that I was just shocked that they missed the target on this one. Buy a different LE book.

This book is a delightful blend of science facts and appealing illustrations.The Little Einsteins' interacting with real photographs of the life stages of butterflies both teach and entertain.

Delightful Little Einsteins book about caterpillers becoming butterflies.Little Einsteins is the most intelligent, entertaining childrens' work I have seen. My little granddaughters are entralled by each episode of the tv program or by the DVDs.Disney and Curious Pictures have produced the best in childrens' media.

Using the Van Gogh painting Wheat Fields in the Cypresses, Butterfly Suits is a hardcover Little Einsteins book about the metamorphosis of a monarch butterfly caterpillar and his journey to get a new "suit". As an added bonus, this book has 17 full-color stickers on the inside back cover!

My son got this book for his birthday a few weeks ago, and read it to his grandparents after he opened all the gifts. They (and he) loved the book!

The text encourages singing, too, as well as visual recognition and counting. The best part, for me, is that it's a science and art lesson combined!

If your child enjoys the Little Einsteins series, this is a great book for kids aged 5 and up. (While the pictures are great for all ages, the text and topic seem geared to older children).

My grand-son is delighted to know about the immersion of a butterfly.Each time we read the book to him he seems mesmerized by the story and asks many questions.What an interesting way to explain nature!

My 2-year old daughter and I are big fans of the Little Einsteins and we enjoy sharing this book as a bedtime story.

Little Einsteins are absolutely delightful in all angles. Worth the extra dollars for the book compared to the others. You'll never find Little Einsteins or RoliePolie Olie for 2.50 on the Walmart rack, because this is a good quality book that your child will love. Great color, great quality in paper for a paperbook.
**Here's a helpful tip----leave your child the inexpensive, dollarstore hardcover or boardbooks on the floor for your child to read on his/her own, but put these more expensive and better quality books up high on a shelf for supervised "special moments" when you read together. This way the book is always taken care of for repeated reading which everyone enjoys. **