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Waiting for Wings (Rise and Shine) Hardcover – 1 April 2001
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Lois Ehlert
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Featuring fascinating butterfly and flower facts, butterfly identification tips, and a guide to creating a butterfly garden, a vibrant picture book, sprinkled with lilting text, illustrates the life cycle of four common butterflies. 75,000 first printing.
- Print length40 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1 April 2001
- Grade levelPreschool - 3
- Dimensions25.4 x 1.75 x 30.48 cm
- ISBN-100152026088
- ISBN-13978-0152026080
- Lexile measure450
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Lois Ehlert, beloved illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and many other bold, beautiful picture books has outdone herself with this gorgeous (seriously breathtaking) celebration of butterfly metamorphosis. "Out in the fields, eggs are hidden from view, / clinging to leaves with butterfly glue. / Soon caterpillars hatch. They creep and chew. / Each one knows what it must do." As the gentle rhyme unfolds, we turn the small, partial pages that form the larger spread of fabulous foliage in this lush, oversized book. Before our eyes, the eggs turn to caterpillars, the caterpillars to cases, the cases to lovely butterflies. "They pump their wings, get ready to fly, then hungry butterflies head for the sky." The colors become increasingly dazzling, each butterfly springing to life with Ehlert's color-soaked cut-paper magic. Several pages of background material conclude the book, labeling different kinds of butterflies at different stages of development, from the buckeye butterfly to the painted lady to the monarch. A "Butterfly Information" page clearly labels butterfly anatomy and answers basic question about these fascinating fluttery insects, a "Flower Identification" page showcases butterfly-attracting flowers such as the purple coneflower (echinacea), phlox, and lantana, and the last page offers a few pointers on growing a butterfly garden. (Ages 3 to 6) --Karin Snelson
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Ages 4-6, older for reading alone. In a field, butterfly eggs stick to leaves, then hatch. Caterpillars eat and "make a case" in which to grow. Then the cases tear and butterflies emerge, pumping their wings. They sip nectar from the flowers, then fly back to the fields to lay their eggs. Following this simple story, a colorful spread depicts the caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly stages of the Buckeye, Painted Lay, Monarch, and Tiger Swallowtail butterflies. Three more pages lay out basic information about the physical characteristics, life stages, and food of butterflies; pictures of the flowers that butterflies favor; and advice on planting a garden that attracts butterflies. The large format allows for an unusual device: the first half of the story takes place in one small section of the field, which is represented on a double-page spread. Small pages at the bottom of the spread turn so that minor changes to the eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalises can be shown within the larger framework. Although this concentrates children's attention on the subtle changes taking place, the overall consequence is a rather static first half of the book. However, that in turn heightens the effect of flight when the butterflies finally take off, glowing in silhouette against a white background. Ehlert's sense of form, color, and design inform every page but are seen to best effect where garden and butterflies combine in a glorious riot of pink, purple, red, yellow, orange, green, and tawny hues. The short, rhyming text reads aloud well, telling the story without anthropomorphism. An original and vivid introduction. Carolyn Phelan
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"...a masterful blend of art and natural science." -- Publishers Weekly, April 2, 2001
"Ehlert soars with a masterful blend of art and natural science. A must for budding lepidopterists." -- Publishers Weekly, April 2, 2001
"Ehlert soars with a masterful blend of art and natural science. A must for budding lepidopterists." -- Publishers Weekly, April 2, 2001
About the Author
Lois Ehlert is the author of many award-winning picture books, including Market Day, which was named a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she creates her books, collects folk art, and waits for butterflies to visit each spring.
Lois Ehlert is the author of many award-winning picture books, including Market Day, which was named a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she creates her books, collects folk art, and waits for butterflies to visit each spring.
Lois Ehlert is the author of many award-winning picture books, including Market Day, which was named a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she creates her books, collects folk art, and waits for butterflies to visit each spring.
Product details
- Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First edition (1 April 2001)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 40 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0152026088
- ISBN-13 : 978-0152026080
- Item Weight : 454 g
- Dimensions : 25.4 x 1.75 x 30.48 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #629,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9,690 in Language Learning & Teaching
- #11,835 in Children's Science, Nature & Technology (Books)
- #14,731 in Children's Early Learning (Books)
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LOIS EHLERT has created many picture books, including Leaf Man, Pie in the Sky, In My World, Growing Vegetable Soup, Planting a Rainbow, and the bestselling Waiting for Wings. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Tracey O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 July 2015Verified Purchase
Super illustrations and very quick delivery
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Hockeymary
5.0 out of 5 stars
Magnifique
Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on 11 July 2013Verified Purchase
Un très bel album, comme les Anglo-saxons savent bien le faire...Utilisable en classe d'anglais, pour changer un peu de l'excellent Very hungry caterpillar d'Eric Carle.

pococo
4.0 out of 5 stars
あざやかな絵に感動!
Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on 28 August 2002Verified Purchase
初めてこの本を開いたとき、カラフルできれいな絵に感動しました。
卵から蝶々になる過程を書いた話ですが、その成長の場面は卵のある
下の部分だけがページをめくれるようになっていて、息子はそのページ
を自分でめくるのが楽しいようです。
最後に本に出てきた蝶々と花の名前が載っていて、蝶々の体の部分の
呼び方も書いてあります。花は本物とはちょっと違うかなと思うものも
ありますが、とてもきれいです。
卵から蝶々になる過程を書いた話ですが、その成長の場面は卵のある
下の部分だけがページをめくれるようになっていて、息子はそのページ
を自分でめくるのが楽しいようです。
最後に本に出てきた蝶々と花の名前が載っていて、蝶々の体の部分の
呼び方も書いてあります。花は本物とはちょっと違うかなと思うものも
ありますが、とてもきれいです。

Bookworm
3.0 out of 5 stars
lovely book
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 20 January 2023Verified Purchase
This is a beautiful book, but it was rated as “Very Good” condition and one page was torn out. Library tape will repair it.

dianet
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect for butterfly watching
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 21 April 2021Verified Purchase
This book is absolutely beautiful
I bought my girls one each because they like it so much when it was read to them in class, they book made them super excited to learning about butterflies, they can save it forever 💕 and maybe use it if they chose to have children
I plan to get more books by this author
I bought my girls one each because they like it so much when it was read to them in class, they book made them super excited to learning about butterflies, they can save it forever 💕 and maybe use it if they chose to have children
I plan to get more books by this author