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BOOKS - FICTION

NOTE: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
J BOARDBK CARR0	Carroll, Molly	Busy, Busy Butterfly Simple text and illustrations explain the life cycle of butterflies to young children.	2009
J BOARDBK HOOD	Harley, Avis	The Monarch's Progress: Poems with Wings Why are butterflies so universally loved?	2003
J BOARDBK LUCA	Lucado, Max	Hermie: A Common Caterpillar Best friends Hermie and Wormie are sad each time they see that other creatures are special when they, themselves, are so ordinary, but they trust that they are special in God's eyes and that He is not finished with them yet.	2002
J ALEXA	Alexander, Nina	Megan and the Borealis Butterfly Ten-year-old Megan meets a girl whose scientist parents are searching for specimens of an endangered species of butterfly.	1999
J KIPLIN	Kipling, Rudyard	The Butterfly That Stamped	1982
J LEVIC	Levicoff, Judith	The Butterfly Garden	1994
J OSBO	Osborne, Mary Pope	Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May-apple With the help of friends, a young butterfly tries to uncover the mystery involving a gossamer-winged butterfly with whom he has fallen in love.	1992
J PIERS	Piers, Helen	Snail and Caterpillar When Snail discovers that Caterpillar and her cabbage house have been taken to market, he sets out to rescue them.	1972
J POLITI	Politi, Leo	The Butterflies Come A little girl visits the butterfly trees near her home on the Monterey Peninsula, where the monarch butterflies spend the winter, and learns about past and present butterfly celebrations in California.	1957
J/JE ROCKW	Rockwell, Anne F.	Sally's Caterpillar	1966
JE ALBER	Alberts, Nancy	Elizabeth's Beauty A young girl tries to help an injured butterfly fly again in order to give her grandfather hope of recovering from his stroke.	1996
JE ALEXA	Alexander, Liza	Flutter by, Butterfly When a butterfly unexpectedly flutters by and surprises Elmo, it sets off a chain reaction of funny accidents.	1998
JE BUNTI	Bunting, Eve	The Butterfly House With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.	1999
JE CAIN	Cain, Sheridan	The Crunching Munching Caterpillar Caterpillar wants to fly like Butterfly, Bumblebee, and Sparrow, and Butterfly thinks his wish may come true.	2000
JE CAPAL	Capalija, Ann Marie	Butterfly Hunt When Sparklewoks and Serendipity go off on a butterfly hunt, they have an amazing adventure and make a new friend.	2005
JE CARLE	Carle, Eric	The Very Hungry Caterpillar Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep and wakes up a butterfly.	1987
JE COLLI	Collicott, Sharleen	Toestomper and the Bad Butterflies Toestomper doesn't mind having baby caterpillars invade his home because they make such nice pets, but when they change into butterflies and begin zooming around Littletown, no one is safe.	2003
JE DAVOL	Davol, Marguerite W.	Why Butterflies Go By on Silent Wings When the world was young, butterflies were so noisy that they did not see the beauty around them--until a great storm transformed and silenced them.	2001
JE DELUI	DeLuise, Dom	Charlie the Caterpillar A caterpillar is rejected by various groups of animals, until he achieves his beautiful wings and is able to befriend a similarly unhappy caterpillar.	1990
JE EDWAR	Edwards, Pamela Duncan	Clara Caterpillar By camouflaging herself, Clara Caterpillar, who becomes a cream-colored butterfly, courageously saves Catisha the crimson-colored butterfly from a hungry crow.	2001
JE ELWEL	Elwell, Peter	Adios Oscar! A Butterfly Fable by Peter Elwell Despite his friends' teasing, Oscar the caterpillar studies to prepare for becoming a butterfly and migrating to Mexico, so when things do not turn out as he expects, he is still able to make his dream come true.	2009
JE ELZBI	Elzbieta	Little Mops and the Butterfly When he returns a tiny lost shoe to its caterpillar owner, Little Mops is rewarded by being able to observe a beautiful transformation.	1972
JE FRISK	Friskey, Margaret	Johnny and the Monarch	1946
JE GEORG	George, Katie	Stripey the Caterpillar Poor Stripey's not feeling too well. Will a different-colored flower make him all better? Take the bright, yellow-and-red puppet and help it crawl, wiggle, dawdle, and curl up on a rainbow of blossoms. Which one will cure him? Or will something else do th	1998
JE GIDEO	Dychtwald, Ken	Gideon's Dream Gideon, a caterpillar grub, is transformed when the leaf which he is eating falls from the tree, giving him a sensation of flying, and suddenly all he can think, talk, or dream about is flight.	2008
JE GILL	Gill, Mehrnaz S.	The Yellow Butterfly Grandfather relates to Susi and Bobby the legend that reveals the one thing needed to have their wishes granted by the magical singing yellow butterfly which they recently encountered in their backyard.	2010
JE GODW	Godwin, Sarah	Where's Caterpillar? Mouse's search of the world for Caterpillar brings him in contact with many examples of camouflage. Features cut-out pages.	1995
JE HORAC	Horacek, Petr	Butterfly, Butterfly	2007
JE INKPE	Inkpen, Michael	Butterfly When Kipper the dog discovers that a little blue butterfly is attracted to the color purple, he finally finds a way to catch it.	1999
JE JARRE	Jarrett, Clare	Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar A little girl feeds a tiny caterpillar and watches him grow into a butterfly.	2008
JE JOHNS	Johnston, Tony	Isabel's House of Butterflies Eight-year-old Isabel hopes that her plan will spare her favorite tree, keep the butterflies coming, and provide an income for her poor family in Mexico.	2003
JE KEIDO	Keido, Ippo	The Butterfly's Dream In ancient China, a man falls asleep beneath a willow tree and dreams he is a butterfly.	2003
JE KELLE	Keller, Holly	Farfallina and Marcel A caterpillar and a young goose become great friends, but as they grow up they undergo changes which separate them for awhile.	2002
JE KROLL	Kroll, Virginia L.	Butterfly Boy A boy and his grandfather joyfully watch a gathering of butterflies in this story set in Mexico.	1997
JE LAWRE	Lawrence, Michael	The Caterpillar That Roared Hugo the caterpillar tries to convince his friends that he is a lion, until the day he frightens Maurice the minnow away and realizes that it is better to be himself.	2000
JE MADIS	Madison, Alan	Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly Velma starts first grade in the shadow of her memorable older sisters, and while her newfound interest in butterflies helps her to stand out, it also leads to an interesting complication.	2007
JE MANKO	Man-Kong, Mary	Barbie Mariposa Barbie stars as the beautiful butterfly fairy Mariposa...always daydreaming and studying the stars...	2008
JE MURPH	Murphy, Mary	Caterpillar's Wish Caterpillar wants to fly away with her friends Bee and Ladybug, and she can after she becomes a butterfly.	1999
JE NEJIM	Nejime, Shoichi	Bit by Bit	2005
JE OFLAT	O Flatharta, Antoine	Hurry and the Monarch Hurry the tortoise befriends a monarch butterfly when she stops in his garden in Wichita Falls, Texas.	2005
JE OVEN	Ovenell-Carter, Julie	The Butterflies' Promise	1999
JE PEDER	Pedersen, Janet	Houdini the Amazing Caterpillar 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.	2008
JE RING	Ring, Elizabeth	Monarch Butterfly of Aster Way A monarch butterfly emerges from its chrysalis and makes its way across the United States to the mountains of Mexico where it will spend the winter.	1999
JE SAND	Sandved, Kjell Bloch	The Butterfly Alphabet	1996
JE SUND	Sundgaard, Arnold	The Lamb and the Butterfly A protected lamb and an independent butterfly discuss their different ways of living	1988
JE SWOPE	Swope, Sam	Gotta Go! Gotta Go! Although she does not know why or how, a small creepy-crawly bug is certain that she must make her way to Mexico.	2000
JE WEST	West, Colin	Buzz, buzz, buzz, Went Bumblebee Bumblebee buzzes around bothering everyone until he comes to a gentle butterfly who understands that the busy bee is looking for someone to be his friend.	1996
JE YEP	Yep, Laurence	The Butterfly Boy There once was a boy who dreamed he was a butterfly, and as a butterfly he always dreamed he was a boy.	1993
JE YOSHI	Yoshi	The Butterfly Hunt A boy pursues and captures elusive butterflies but decides that it is more fun to carry home his memories than a trophy.	1990
JE YOUNG	Young-Robinson, Christine	Isra the Butterfly Gets Caught for Show and Tell Isra the butterfly wants to go out and play in the outside world where boys and girls live.	2001
JE ZIEFE	Ziefert, Harriet	Butterfly Birthday Butterfly Birthday completes a quartet of books Snow Party , Mermaid Dance and By the Light of the Harvest Moon that celebrates the many and miraculous wonders of the changing seasons.	2010
JE ZIMME	Zimmerman, Kathleen	Oscar's First Flight	2005
JER BERGE	Bergen, Lara	Diego Saves a Butterfly Diego rescues a butterfly from the cave she hid in when Baby Jaguar scared her	2009
JER LEWIS	Lewison, Wendy Cheyette	Princess Buttercup: A Flower Princess Story Spring is here, and the Flower Princesses are having a party, but where is Princess Buttercup?	2001
S JER MARZO	Marzollo, Jean	Soy una oruga Provides a simple explanation of what happens as a caterpillar changes into a butterfly--from the caterpillar's point of view.	1999

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