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Bank Street College of Education Best

Children’s Books of the Year Selection 2014

Science Books and Films Best Books of 2014 in Zoological Sciences

Finalist in the Florida Reading Association Book Award

The colorful flowers in Mama’s garden reveal a strange-looking creature. “What is it? Does it sting, does it bite?” Join in this photographic journey as the young girl and her mother care for the caterpillar. Watch as it transforms into a chrysalis and then emerges as a beautiful monarch butterfly. How can the young girl “claim” the butterfly as her own but still let it go free?