Butterfly House

After a little girl saves a tiny caterpillar caterpillar, common name for the larva of a moth or butterfly. Caterpillars have distinct heads and are segmented and wormlike. from being eaten by a blue jay, her grandfather helps her make a butterfly butterfly, any of a large group of insects found

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throughout most of the world; with the moths, they comprise the order Lepidoptera. There are about 12 families of butterflies. Most adult moths and butterflies feed on nectar sucked from flowers. house to keep it safe. The caterpillar transforms into a beautiful butterfly and is set free. Many years later, when the girl is as old as her grandfather was when they found the caterpillar, beautiful butterflies come to her garden each spring and give her back the love she gave them long ago. The book illustrates how growing up and growing older are natural processes.

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This was not one of my most favorite books by Eve Bunting. The book is about a little girl who rescues a larva from a blue jay. She takes it home and cares for it. Her grandpa helps her build a home for the larva. Soon enough she has to release it because it turns into a butterfly. The book ends

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with the little girls being older and the butterflies come to visit her each year.

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This is a great book! It has beautiful pictures and a wonder ending. It is about a larva and how it turns into a butterfly. It is a wonderful story about a young girl and her granddad saving a larva and giving it a home.

Eve Bunting has written more than 200 books for children, many of which can be found in libraries around the world. Her other Clarion titles for very young readers include My Big Boy Bed, which was also illustrated by Maggie Smith, and Little Bear's Little Boat, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Eve

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is a Caldecott Medal winner with Smoky Night. She lives in Pasadena, California.

Eve Bunting raised a butterfly for a local Earth day awhile back and released the beautiful butterfly back into nature as a beautiful gift.

Butterfly House illustrated by Greg Shed

Greg also raised some Painted Lady butterflies and released them back to the earth. He is a native of San Diego. Please visit his website for a look at Greg's breath taking gallery!
Greg Shed Studio

I find it very interesting that this particular team, author-illustrator, are from sunny California and enjoy writing and illustrating about their passion... as it should be! Did I mention that towards the very back of the book you will find a page on How To Raise a Butterfly?! I love this book with all of it's butterfly details and charm. To all the butterfly people, this warm glowing book is worth buying and reading!

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This is one of my all time favorite books!

I read this to my elementary school classes every year when Spring comes, and we study the life cycle of the butterfly. They love the gorgeous illustrations and are soon asking me to read the story again and again!

Eve Bunting is a master at weaving a

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story. The children feel connected to the main character and always talk about raising their own butterflies. They feel the same pain/joy that the character in the story does. Simply said, I love this book!

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A little girl raises a butterfly from a caterpillar; when she becomes an adult, butterflies return to visit her garden. This book takes children through the life cycle from the butterfly, from the larval stage until it hatches. There is also a guide at the very end detailing how to raise a

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butterfly, making this a good read for children who are interested in nature, and who are old enough to take on projects.

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Upon saving a butterfly larva from a jay, a little girl sets on helping the larva reach maturity while building a box to keep it in. During this process, she is helped by her grandfather who tells her how he once saved a larva and helped it turn into a butterfly. The little girl realizes that her

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grandfather was once her age and they have things in common. The girl grows into a woman, and continues to live in the house of her grandfather. She keeps a garden that attracts the butterflies to her house.

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After a little saves a caterpillar from a hungry Blue Jay, she finds out that it will become a butterfly. This is very exciting for this little girl. Her and Grandpa work together to make a caterpillar house and give the larva a safe place to live and mature. After the caterpillar matures in to a

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beautiful butterfly they release it back into nature. I love this story. The girl and her grandfather have a lovely relationship. The book includes the instructions to How to Raise a Butterfly like this girl did. This would be great to do with students, fun science project.

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I enjoyed this story. I like how it has true facts about butterflies throughout it. I also like how the author provides facts in the back of the book, such as how to find a larva or how to feed a butterfly, so the reader can make their own butterfly house. I also enjoyed the book's pictures. The

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pictures are bright and colorful, giving the book a happy feel. Another thing that I like is how the author writes the story by breaking it down step by step. The reader is constantly informed of what the girl and her grandfather are doing. For example "We glued the painted flowers inside the box so it was bright with color." This gives the reader a really nice visual of what is happening in the story. Unfortunately, I think this book is more for young girls rather than boys. The illustrations are all in what is considered "girly" colors. This does not make it as appealing for a young boy, though the content is interesting. The main message of this story is what goes around comes around.

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A young girl found a caterpillar and saved it from a jay. Her grandfather showed her how to take care of it until she was able to release it. Now, the young girl is much older living in her grandfathers home. Outside his house is full of butterfly's, and she believes it was all because of that day!

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Very touching story. It brings back memories that you once shared with those who have passed.

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Butterfly House is a beautiful story by Eve Bunting about a girl and her grandfather who raise a butterfly. They build a beautiful house for the butterfly and wait for it to grow and then release it once it comes out of the chrysalis. Later in the story, the time changes and the girl is the age her

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grandfather was and the grandfather is no longer around. However, her garden is filled with butterflies and she thinks it is because of the care she once gave a butterfly with her grandfather. Everyone else thinks it is a mystery but she knows it is not. I think this story is a beautiful story to read to children especially if their school has an activity where they have a butterfly garden and raise their own butterflies. The illustrations are also very detailed with soft colors to emphasize the love and happiness in this book.

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Lots of similes and metaphors in this story about how a girl saved a caterpillar and kept it until it became a butterfly, told in verse. Shows a very sweet and touching relationship between a grandfather and a young girl as well. I'd recommend this to elementary teachers who want to teach poetic

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devices with a sweet narrative poem, or to a parent (or grandparent)to share with a child.

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I dunno. It was good, but something didn't work well enough for me to get excited about. I did love the illustrations of the child grown, at the end.

This is a book about a little girl that finds a butterfy at the beginning of its life cycle. Throughout the story the little girl's grandfather shows her how to raise the butterfly and in the end the butterflies all come to her when the season changes. This is a good book because ofthe

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illustrations that help with the descriptive text that show the life of a butterfly through the lens of this little girl in a meaningful way.

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Butterfly House is a gentle children’s story of a young girl who rescues a caterpillar from a hungry jay. With her grandfather’s help, they build a home for the little insect to keep it safe, and then watch as it encases itself in a cocoon and later emerges as a beautiful butterfly. Much later

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in life, when the girl has become an old woman, the butterflies still come to visit her garden, bringing her joy. The last page of the book includes detailed information on how to raise your own butterfly.

This is a sweet story that teaches children the importance of caring for all living creatures. As a new grandparent, I also enjoyed how the girl worked with and learned from her grandfather and the emphasis that’s placed on this family interaction. The illustrations are lovely and compliment the story nicely. The main reason I dropped a star on the rating is that, although I love butterflies (or perhaps because I do), I didn’t find the story quite as engaging as I’d hoped. For the most part, it felt like a step-by-step instruction manual on raising a butterfly from a caterpillar. If this is something you want to do, then it would be a great reference. However, I think I was expecting a little more information on the butterfly itself and how it develops. Still, it was a very gentle, pleasant story that I’m sure kids who like butterflies or insects would probably enjoy.

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