I also liked that it was illustrated the way it was, showing what each butterfly looked like as a caterpillar and a butterfly. I liked that the book was so descriptive that it was easy to understand these big odd vocabulary words. Like Lepidoptera means scale wing and proboscis is their tongue. There were also some other large odd vocabulary words but they did give the meaning of those words, so that was helpful. This book I would say is definitely for an older child as it uses terms that I doubt younger children and even an adult might not know such as the Cretaceous period (40 million years ago). I liked that when the book talked about the location of these butterflies it showed a world map with the location marked in red. Or that some butterflies are poisonous because as caterpillars they ate poisonous plants to keep birds from eating them when they became butterflies. Like Monarchs fly as high as 11,000 feet and the largest butterfly is over a foot wide and lives in Papua New Guinea. It was also very educational about a topic that I felt I would or should have known fairly well but I actually learned several facts that I hadn’t know and never even imagined. I liked this book for the fact that it was very colorful and animated and as it talked about a certain type of butterfly the name would popup beside its picture.
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