Introduces readers to butterflies, describing how they transform from caterpillers, how they develop their wings, their behavior, and other related topics.
Simple, rhymed text and illustrations introduce many different kinds of bugs, beetles, and butterflies, including the earwig, zebra butterfly, and water strider.
When each child in Gabriel's class must choose an animal to speak about he cannot decide upon one, until one day he discovers a caterpillar and watches it transform into a butterfly.