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From the Publisher

	Cuckoo	Feathers For Lunch	Plumas para almorzar	Top Cat	Nuts to You!

Customer Reviews	58	230	8	50	164
Read More Books by Lois Ehlert	Cuckoo is beautiful. Trouble is, she's lazy. She never does her share of work—that is, until a field fire threatens the season's seed crop and Cuckoo is the only one who can save it.	An escaped house cat encounters twelve common birds in the backyard but captures only feathers for lunch.	The Spanish-language edition of Feathers for Lunch.	Top Cat rules the house until an unexpected box arrives with someone new--and cute--inside.	A squirrel's comic misadventures. Labels identify plants, birds, and insects on each page, and a glossary at the back of the book offers factual details about squirrels.

	Growing Vegetable Soup	A sembrar sopa de verduras	A sembrar sopa de verduras / Growing Vegetable Soup bilingual board book	In My World	Leaf Man

Customer Reviews	459	4	67	26	2,156
	A bright and bold picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young.	The Spanish-language edition of Growing Vegetable Soup.	A bright and bold picture book on gardening for the very young in a bilingual board book format.	In this colorful die-cut picture book by award-winning author Lois Ehlert, a child thanks the world for all of nature’s wonders.	Come along on a journey with a man made of leaves in this autumnal classic by Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Lois Ehlert.

	Market Day	Mole's Hill	Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna	Red Leaf Yellow Leaf	Snowballs

Customer Reviews	37	19	57	311	556
	Wake up! It's market day! Whether you're looking for fruits, vegetables, or just an afternoon of fun, this is a shopping trip you don't want to miss.	When Fox says Mole has to move her home to make room for a new path, Mole must do some quick thinking--and digging--to save it.	Fox wants to go to the moon. Mole does not--at least not until he hears about the huge worms waiting up there for him to eat. A Peruvian folktale told in Spanish and English.	This rich introduction to the life of a tree is a celebration of nature featuring a child's connection to a sugar maple tree.	It's time to build a snowman in this fresh and imaginative winter classic.

	Fish Eyes	Hands	Planting a Rainbow	Eating the Alphabet	Waiting for Wings

Customer Reviews	363	60	2,292	2,632	277
	Brightly colored fish introduce young children to counting and basic addition in this fun and simple concept book.	Join hands with artist Lois Ehlert in this moving celebration of family and creativity.	This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth.	A vibrant wordbook featuring fruits and vegetables from around the world featuring upper- and lowercase letters for preschoolers just learning language.	With a simple, rhyming text and glorious color-drenched collage, Lois Ehlert follows the life cycle of four common butterflies, from their beginnings as tiny hidden eggs and hungry caterpillars to their transformation into full-grown butterflies.

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Amazon.com Review

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

From School Library Journal

K-Gr 2-A beautifully woven blend of information about caterpillars, butterflies, and the gardens that attract them. Vibrant colors jump off of white backgrounds to show realistic-looking butterflies and flowers in Ehlert's signature cut-paper-collage style. The artist is creative with paper size. Overall, the book measures 10 by 12 inches. Open the front cover, however, and readers see a smaller internal page that actually blends its illustrations into the endpapers surrounding it. The pages then become increasingly larger until they are full sized to showcase the butterflies in search of a flower garden. Ehlert deftly documents the caterpillars' life cycle. "Caterpillar changes now begin-body and wings take shape within. When it's time, each case is torn-wings unfold; new butterflies are born!" The story completes its arc with the butterflies ready to begin their life cycle again. The remaining pages identify the various butterfly and flower species showcased in the story, depicting the adult, the caterpillar, chrysalis, and an example of the type of leaf it eats. Information on how to grow a butterfly garden rounds out this stellar presentation.-Lisa Gangemi Krapp, Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, NY

From Booklist

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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Review

"...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

About the Author

Lois Ehlert was the author-illustrator of many picture books, including Caldecott Honor–winning Color Zoo, Leaf Man, Pie in the Sky, In My World, Growing Vegetable Soup, Planting a Rainbow, and the best-selling Waiting for Wings.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarion Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2001
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0152026088
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0152026080
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 2 - 6 years, from customers
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 0.69 x 12 inches
Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 3
Best Sellers Rank: #104,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #58 in Children's Mexico Books
- #69 in Children's Gardening Books (Books)
- #129 in Children's Science Experiment 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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