metamorphosis

When Sunny finds a weird-looking pod hanging from a branch, Uncle Balzac de Chameleon explains it's a pupa--a sort of "sleeping bag" where a caterpillar becomes a butterfly in a big change called "metamorphosis." Curiosity leads Sunny and Bobby on an exploration of other big-change artists, such as frogs, mosquitoes, dragonflies, and more.

In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf, unaware he turns into a human for a short time each year, but when the two find one another in human form, they vow to do whatever it takes to stay together.

Photographs follow the development of a frog from egg to tadpole to frog.

Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly too.

A young boy, Paolo, and the man who murdered his parents, Angel, gradually become like father and son as they live and work together on the remote Chilean farm where Paolo was born.

The life of ten-year-old Bobby Lassiter changes drastically when she meets Mister Boots, a man who is also a horse.

After Gregory Sampson wakes up one morning to discover that he has become a giant beetle, only one person seems to notice.

The children drawn to Coldharbour prepare to battle a terrifying force headed their way.

Drawn to a wasteland of garbage dumps called Coldharbour, six children undergo mysterious transformations and band together to face an unknown enemy.

Lucius Apuleius, a young nobleman fascinated by magic, accidentally turns himself into an ass and then sets out on a journey that reveals to him the conditions of peasants and slaves in and around Thessaly and leads him to find redemption as a follower of Isis and Osiris.