metamorphosis

Five original stories where strange changes occur, from a boy and a cat changing places and a young man learning the price of selfishness to an invisible princess finding herself.

A class observes the various stages caterpillars go through to become butterflies.

Describes how caterpillars transform into butterflies with photographs and information on different kinds of butterflies.

Presents an introduction to the concept of metamorphosis, in simple text with illustrations, describing what it is, and providing examples of different animals that it happens to, including butterflies, ladybugs, frogs, dragonflies, and grasshoppers.

Children in the classroom watch a caterpillar grow, disappear inside a shell it makes, and come out of the shell a beautiful butterfly.

Arabella Miller discovers a tiny caterpillar and takes it home to care for it until it transforms into a beautiful butterfly.

A caterpillar does amazing tricks, like making leaves disappear and shedding its skin, and finally it performs the most amazing trick of all. Includes facts about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly.

At head of title: The mystery of nature. Describes how the caterpillar becomes a graceful and colorful butterfly, an insect that can fly thousands of miles.

Simple text and illustrations depict how a caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly.

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.