The Best Butterfly Books for Kids

A week of relentless eating ends inside a small green case — and something entirely different comes out.

Metamorphosis takes two entire weeks, which is roughly thirteen days longer than anyone here is willing to wait.

A field guide’s worth of species, painted large, with the slow facts of a butterfly’s life folded in.

Four eggs hide in a field while the pages grow, until the garden is full of wings and the flowers that feed them.

The whole monarch year, labeled and diagrammed: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, wings, and the long flight south.

A bug's mysterious urge leads to a miraculous journey south.

A monarch would like to correct the record about what butterflies actually drink, and it is not all nectar.

For decades nobody knew where the monarchs went each winter — until thousands of ordinary people started tagging wings.

New to a country and a language, a child counts monarchs, finds almost none, and decides to plant them a reason to stay.

Somebody has to grow the butterflies that fill a museum exhibit — and then pack the chrysalises for the flight.

In an age that called insects beasts of the devil, one artist raised them at home and drew exactly what she saw.

A girl and her caretaker race against time to save humanity from a deadly sun sickness.