What is a butterfly suit (Butterfly Suits with Sticker - Marcy Kelman)

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Product:	Butterfly Suits with Sticker - Marcy Kelman
Date:	10/10/08 (126 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tells children about the life cycle of butterfly

Disadvantages: None really

Butterfly suits is a Disney little Einstein's book. This is a hard backed book 21cm square. This book has 23 pages + stickers; yes this is a sticker book. This book is one of a series of sticker books. Butterfly suits written by Susan Ring. Illustrated by Bob Cavin and Andy Mastrocinque. Price on my book £3.99, actually I bought it for 30p from local save the children charity shop. Looks new and has all the stickers. This book is suitable for 4 to 8 year olds.
The book starts by introducing Leo, Annie, June and Quincy. They have a Rocket that will take us on our journey. The rocket can hear singing; turn the page to find out who it is.
On the next page we are told to look at the red mushroom there is a monarch caterpillar on it. Quincy feeds the caterpillar he is hungry. Over the page there is a truck which stops to pick up the caterpillar. The little Einstein's looked at the truck then follows it. Sadly the caterpillar falls of the truck but his friends pick him up and take him in their rocket. On their way to the tree of many colours caterpillar gets hungry while caterpillar is eating Annie tells us all about cater[pillars and how they turn into butterflies, This is the middle of the book where there are 2 pages with stickers, about 20 stickers pictures of the characters flowers bees .

Now the rocket gets to the musical tree of many colours. At the colour tree Annie puts caterpillar on the tree where he begins to change first he hangs up on a tree and makes his skin hard and becomes a chrysalis. Then we watch as days pass and eventually a butterfly emerges. The Einstein children talk about butterflies and have a butterfly party in a flowery meadow.
Your child can use the stickers in the book finding the correct picture to stick the stickers over or can make their own picture on a piece of paper.

The grandchildren when read this were slightly interested. I thought it quite good as a book to use in the summer after seeing butterflies or caterpillars. . Husband a member of Butterfly conservation was not over keen on the book. I thought it went through the life stages of the butterfly in a way that was approachable by children and would be useful to introduce children to the cycle of egg caterpillar chrysalis, butterfly. I think as I read it, or after I would explain that caterpillars find many different places to hang up and turn into a chrysalis,

The pictures in the book are good, bright the butterfly a real type the pictures correct. This butterfly does not fly in England it flies in America, Australia, and Hawaii

Generally I thought this book ok, the children quite enjoyed it

Summary: A book about caterpillars and butterflies