30 Books About Butterflies and Caterpillars

This informative book will entertain readers with vivid and appealing close-up drawings that explaining the life cycle and habitat of butterflies.

Provides a simple explanation of what happens as a caterpillar changes into a butterfly—from the caterpillar's point of view.

Isabella has recently arrived from Colombia with her mother and abuela. She misses Papa, who is still in South America. It's her first day of school, her make-new-friends day, but when classes are canceled because of too much snow, Isabella misses warm, green, Colombia more than ever. Then Isabella meets Katie and finds out that making friends in the cold is easier than she thought!

This colorful pre-reader uses simple vocabulary and fun pictures to capture the interest and help develop the skills of beginning readers.

This laugh-out-loud companion to Ross Burach's The Very Impatient Caterpillar, The Little Butterfly That Could, and Goodnight, Butterfly playfully encourages readers to embrace their own uniqueness while also presenting the steps of pollination.

Is it time yet? This STEM-focused romp about pupation will tickle little ones who know how hard it is to wait.

Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies.

All-new, easy-to-read riddles by Jean Marzollo are paired with fun photographs culled from previously published I SPY books to create this I SPY reader.

What does Butterfly like?

Mrs. Connor's first-graders watch as caterpillars slowly turn into butterflies in the butterfly garden at Robin Hill School.

Brief text and pictures introduce butterflies and their habits.

What does Butterfly like?

Discover why this interesting insect lives in groups, where they live and what they eat. With amazing photos and lively text, this book takes you inside a chrysalis, tells you what a butterfly keeper does, and teaches you what you can do to help conserve and protect butterflies. Get ready to learn all about kaleidoscopes of butterflies!

This reader gives kids an up-close look at exactly how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

Curious kids will be excited to learn about the magical world of butterflies: their beauty, their importance to plant life, and their incredible metamorphosis and migration.

The amazing life cycle of the monarch butterfly is revealed through simple, clear text and drawings.

Lively texts with bold bright illustrations will engage children and make this book a favorite to return to again and again.

In this laugh-out-loud companion to The Very Impatient Caterpillar, curriculum-friendly science topics are artfully woven together with social emotional themes and sidesplitting humor.

This playful parody of butterfly migration-delivered with hilarity and heart-pays loving homage to every child's struggle to spread their wings and gain confidence and independence.

Now kids can feel like real pros with this exciting nonfiction series for beginning readers. Kids will be hooked on the thrilling real-world topics and big, bright photos.

Learn about monarch butterflies.

This poetic and hope-filled story of two refugee siblings shines a light on the universal needs of home and safety.

Emilio and his grandfather, Abuelo, love to watch red admiral butterflies. Will Emilio find a way to make the butteflies stay?

THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS PRESENTS INSECTS is a photographic nonfiction companion book to the original bestselling title, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS INSIDE A BEEHIVE.

Award-winning author and photographer Nic Bishop brings his vast knowledge of biology to this eye-catching exploration of butterflies and moths.

The life cycle of a monarch butterfly is described from its egg stage through adulthood using wonderful photographs and simple text.

An incredible variety of butterflies are celebrated here in all of their beauty and wonder.

The monarch butterfly, one of the most seemingly delicate of all of nature's animals, proves to be one of the toughest in this reader.

An immigrant girl finds a home in a new place and a way to help monarch butterflies. “Unites fiction with facts while quietly promoting environmental activism."