Young children can try out their reading wings as they learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. The simply written text goes hand-in-hand with the striking cut-paper artwork of Spider's Lunch artist Ron Broda to create a colorful introduction to these fascinating insects. Reader Level 2: Level 2 is for Progressing Readers who can read longer sentences with simple dialogue. These books offer pictures and context clues, in-depth plot development, and are available in both fiction and nonfiction books. Gr. 1-2. This colorful volume from the All Aboard Reading Series uses relatively simple words to discuss butterflies. The text explains butterflies physical kinship with other insects and presents the life cycle of a butterfly as well as camouflage, migration, and the differences between butterflies and moths. The illustrations, which combine elements of painting and cut-paper collage, create various effects, from a landscape conveying levels of depth to a large-scale butterfly isolated against a white background. Though the information presented is quite limited, librarians may want to have this on hand for beginning readers who prefer nonfiction. Carolyn Phelan Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Emily Neye is a children’s book author and a landscape designer. She studied English at Amherst College and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Emily loves learning about the natural world and sharing her passion with others, through both her writing and her work on urban gardens and parks. Emily lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.