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New York : Orchard Books, c1988.
Description
A protected lamb and an independent butterfly discuss their different ways of living.
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LibraryThing member jrjohnson1
Really good illustration. Story about a lamb and a butterfly that become friends.
LibraryThing member cwollan09
Genre: Fantasy
Style: 5 stars
Review: A young lamb meets and butterfly and asks him to join the flock of sheep. Sadly she learns that butterflies travel around for their life. This book is a good example of fantasy because the writing that focuses on topics or events that cannot take place in our
Media: acrylic painting and paper collage
Style: 5 stars
Review: A young lamb meets and butterfly and asks him to join the flock of sheep. Sadly she learns that butterflies travel around for their life. This book is a good example of fantasy because the writing that focuses on topics or events that cannot take place in our
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world.Media: acrylic painting and paper collage
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LibraryThing member kjacks26
I thought this was an okay book; I had mixed feelings after reading it. I loved the pictures. Not only were they by Eric Carle, who is known around the world for his many highly original and beautiful pictures, but also they enhanced the story and appropriately match the text. For example, every
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time the butterfly lands on a flower, the flower takes up the whole page, but the butterfly is still the focus. I also like how the pictures look like they are made with different textures. I was not impressed by the storyline and it did not interest me and make me want to keep reading. Even though the writing was organized, flowed, and was paced well, I just would not pick up this book and read it again, or read it to anyone else.The central message of this book is that you cannot make someone stay, if they do not want to stay. Even though the lamb thought the butterfly was better off with him, the butterfly did not agree. At the end of the book the butterfly explains, “Please don’t think me ungrateful,” said the Butterfly to the Lamb. And spreading his wings in the splendid act of flight, he zigged and he zagged and he ziggety zagged and soon was lost from sight. Show Less
LibraryThing member BriannaMaeee
The lamb and the butterfly is filled with beautiful pictures. The lamb wants to be friends with the butterefly and asks him to stay. The lamb is really confused on how the butterfly sleeps where it wants, goes where it wants, and does not follow its mother. When he asks the butterfly to stay with
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him the butterfly cannot, because he must go south to aviod the cold. Show Less
LibraryThing member wichitafriendsschool
A heartwarming story follows the friendship of a little lamb and a butterfly, who, by helping each other, learn about accepting the differences of others and appreciating the importance of freedom and independence.
LibraryThing member villemezbrown
A lamb invites a butterfly to stay with her and her mother in their meadow. The butterfly declines.
Excuse me as I undergo a dramatic bout of yawning . . .
Excuse me as I undergo a dramatic bout of yawning . . .
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Original publication date
1988
Physical description
29 inches
ISBN
0531083799 / 9780531083796