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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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Every spring, butterflies emerge and dazzle the world with their vibrant beauty. But where do butterflies come from? How are they born? What do they eat--and how?
With a simple, rhyming text and glorious color-drenched collage, Lois Ehlert provides clear answers to these and other questions as she 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. Complete with butterfly and flower facts and identification tips, as well as a guide to planting a butterfly garden, this butterfly book is like no other.
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Art"full" Wings........2007-06-29
Lois Ehlert takes you on a colorful, intriguing story about the life cycle of a butterfly. Excellent for art students at any level! Text is simple enough for preschoolers and can be enjoyed through the elementary grades. Enjoy this exciting trip through nature and its wonders!
But Where do Caterpillars Come From?.......2006-09-12
This is a beautiful and very clever book. Pages are cocooned within larger pages, with individual illustrations blending seamlessly into the background illustrations. Like the natural world itself, this book rewards the patient observer, with rich details on the surface and others folded in more subtly. Your kids will be focused in on a little book within the big book, as the caterpillar goes on its journey. It makes the launch to the story within the bigger background pages all the more dynamic, striking as the shift from Kansas to Oz.
It starts with the eggs "hidden from view,/ clinging to leaves with butterfly glue." As we turn the pages of a little book enshrouded in the bigger book, we see the caterpillars hatch, "each one knows what it must do," and we follow the path to metamorphosis. Ultimately, the reader will be rewarded with multiple beautiful butterflies launching up towards the sky, a nice Lepidopterian metaphor for the developmental adventures in store for our little ones. It's a good job of story-telling when we know exactly where the story is going but still find ourselves awestruck.
Finally, as if Ms. Ehlert hadn't done enough, we get several pages at the end on butterfly identification, with information on colors, wingspans shown in actual size, the corresponding caterpillars that precede the butterflies, and the like. We get flower information, and then tips on growing your own butterfly garden. Nice stuff.
Get this book, drill it for a few night-night times, and then take your toddlers to a butterfly pavilion to see the real deal. Good times.
Color,color,color!.......2006-03-20
As usual, Lois Ehlert stimulates and educates the young reader about the mysteries of caterpillars to butterflies. Not only are the colors absolutely stunning, she provides factual information about different species. This book was a fabulous preparation for my classroom of small children as they watched their own caterpillars prepare for their magical transformation!
A Life's Journey.......2005-07-27
Waiting for Wings is a picture book showing the life cycle of a butterfly. The story uses tantalizing pictures and simple words to explain how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. The book takes the reader through the stages of the caterpillar's life. Once the caterpillar has become a butterfly the story changes to how a butterfly lives its life. The illustrations pull the reader into this book. The print is large and easy to read for young reader. The text also rhymes for two pages at a time. As the caterpillar grows the pages become larger, until the butterfly hatches. As the butterfly begins its flight the pages are full size. The illustrations and page sizes are wonderful for young readers. This book also contains identification pages on butterflies and the flowers they eat.
Toddlers and Babies, too!.......2004-05-24
I have a three year old daughter who must be read to before sleeping. I also have a three month old baby girl who is often in the bed with us while we read. Often, the baby is restless and cries before we finish our books. Waiting for Wings is a fabulous solution. I find this interesting AND educational for my toddler. In addition, the colors are bright and contrasting, allowing my baby to be entertained while the book is read.
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Ball Pest & Disease Manual: Disease, Insect, and Mite Control on Flower and Foliage Crops
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Ball RedBook, Volume 2: Crop Production: 17th edition (Ball Red Book)
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Originated in the 17th century, stumpwork is a type of raised and padded embroidery that features a charming array of flowers, fruits, insects, animals, and sometimes people, all worked as delicate sculptural forms. The intricacy and detail evident in a fine piece of stumpwork is truly amazing. The sculptural quality makes this technique unique; more than just being raised off the surface in slight relief, many elements are almost fully dimensional. Fruits look ripe enough to pluck; petals and leaves seem almost to rustle in the breeze; bugs look like they've just lit on the branch. Be advised, however, that this is not a method for the timid crafter; although the book provides ample general instructions and careful analysis of individual elements before proceeding with specific projects, a good working knowledge of embroidery stitches is strongly advised. But the results are so absolutely delightful, you may want to practice honing your skills just to give this a try. --Amy Handy
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“An unusual, almost do-it-yourself guide...Nicholas gives instructions to complete all parts of the embroidery, covering materials and equipment, more than 45 individual elements...and some nearly 20 projects...a 35-stitch glossary is included...every possible theme can be realized.” —Booklist. “A treasure for broadening needlework skills and inspiring imagination in stitches.” —The Cloth Doll.
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Stumpwork Embroidery: A Collection of Fruits, Flowers & Insects for Contemporary Raised Embroidery.......2006-08-21
Plenty of basic information about techniques, stitches and supplies. There are coloured photographs of all the projects towards the back of the book. Everything is clearly explained so a beginner would be able to make a start.
Enchanting and inspiring.......2003-11-09
This book is simply enchanting. The author's examples are masterpieces, her instructions are very clear. A must buy for a needlework enthusiast.
Jane's got talent with a capital "T"!!!!.......2002-10-19
I bought this book about 2 years ago while I was exploring the world of raised embroidery and I got this book and I was floored!!!
Everything in this book is so life-like and beautiful!
I really need to get all of her books! If you are an embroiderer this MUST be in your reference library!
I have plans for this technique in my planned projects and everytime I look at this book I just gush!
Believe me, this book is worth it!
This is a great book. Learn stumpwork from Jane, she's got "TALENT"!!!!!
beautiful.......2000-08-10
This is a very inspirational book for stumpwork enthusiasts. I have made many projects from this book, and use it as a cross reference when using other patterns, as Jane's techniques are often easier and give better results. Hopefully for most embroidery enthusiasts it won't prove too difficult to understand as her instructions are very clear and precise. She has alternative lists of materials at the back of the book if you can't find the threads she recommends, and one of the nice things about her books is that she encourages people to take the initiative to be bold and use materials you might find hidden in your sewing box at home.
Stumpwork Embroidery:A Collection of Fruits, Flowers and Ins.......1999-12-27
While living in Australia, I had the opportunity to not only buy this book and use it, but to take the course offered by the author. The explanations are easy to follow and the diagrams extremely well drawn and follow her classes. I saw some of the original pieces that are photographed in the book and they are depicted beautifully. By the way, another reviewer comments that the book needs occasional translating into "American" from "Australian". Her terminology is "English", not Australian. She lives in Austalia, but is from England.
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Song of the Flowers
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The Only Coloring, Puzzle, Game, Dot-To-Dot Activity Book: You'll Ever Need! (Klutz)
ASIN: 0803729340
Release Date: 2006-04-20 |
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The crocus asked the butterfly, "Will you sing a lullaby To lull me oh-so-soft to sleep tonight?" Full to bursting with bright, gorgeous flowers and delicate, friendly bugs, this is a unique and irresistible bedtime book—a lullaby that revels in the beauty of the natural world. The text dances and the collage artwork dazzles the eye.
Takayo Noda's debut, Dear World, was a Parenting magazine Best Book of the Year, called "sweetly lyrical" and "deeply engaging" by Kirkus in a starred review. This is a strong and satisfying follow-up that's sure to become a bedtime favorite.
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song of the flowers.......2006-07-09
The book is afull of happy tones with vivid colors. An excellent book.
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Fine-line images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. These plates are considered among the finest achievements of a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art. Reprinted from the classic, influential works of the famed artist/entomologist Merian (1647–1717). New English captions.
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Flowers Butterflies and Insects.......2000-07-17
I bought this book to use as clip art for graphic design projects. I was pleased to see that there were many "usable" insect representations. Unfortuantely, there were fewer pieces of "usable" flower art (for my project anyway) because most of the leaves have been eaten by the insects!
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Insects and Flowers: A Biological Partnership
John Brackenbury
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A goldenrod flower is a "minibeast park," have you noticed? Take a closer look ... a butterfly sipping nectar ... a ladybug snacking on aphids. Oh ladybug, look out for the ambushbug! This fifth book in Dr. Fredericks' series on animal communities will again send kids outdoors to explore.
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Entertaining, informative, and highly desirable addition .......2006-10-08
On One Flower Flower: Butterflies, Ticks, and a Few More Icks memorably presents the variety of insect life and activities that are an indispensable part of a flower's ecosystem of interrelationships and interdependencies with animal life. Also available in a hardcover edition (1584690860), Anthony D. Fredericks' uniquely informative, science-based, rhyming text is beautifully illustrated by Jennifer Dirubbio making On One an entertaining, informative, and highly desirable addition to school and community library picturebook collections for young readers ranging from ages four to ten.
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Flying Flowers is an exquisite collection of intimate and up-close images of living butterflies by renowned nature photographer Rick Sammon. A mediation and celebration of one of nature's most beautiful creatures, Flying Flowers takes the reader on a visual journey into the miracle of transformation. The butterfly, with its amazing metamorphosis from a crawling caterpillar into a vivid and graceful winged creature, symbolizes the infinite potential within every living creature to evolve: from darkness into light, ugliness into beauty, lethargy into activity. The life of a butterfly is a coming of age story in the most profound sense. As such an exotic metaphor for transcendence and renewal, the butterfly has been celebrated in art, literature, dance, fashion, myth, and spirituality throughout history and in cultures around the world.
Using groundbreaking digital photography, Sammon offers us a new view of these delicate insects in their natural habitat. "The ability to see every shot immediately on my camera's LCD monitor allowed me to make critical exposure and lighting adjustments on site," explains Sammon. "That was of the utmost importance, due to subject movement, changing lighting conditions and the reflectivity of some of the butterflies."
The result of over a year's work on the subject, these luminous portraits come together in Flying Flowers like a Technicolor bouquet. From Mourning Cloaks to Hummingbird Moths, dozens of species are represented and identified with brief informational captions. Photographed in extreme close-up and stunning detail during all stages of life-emerging from the cocoon, taking flight, migrating in mass, or simply perched momentarily on a bloom or branch-Sammon's butterflies flutter across the page in a mesmerizing kaleidoscope of wings eyes, legs, and antennae.
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Beautiful large coffee table book.......2006-05-30
The pictures of these butterflies and moths are wonderful to look at and some are amazingly close-up. I gave it as a gift, and it's just perfect for someone who loves colorful and artistic photos and wants to know only the name and location of the various types.
If you're looking for more in-depth informative detail of butterflies and moths, this book isn't for you. The emphasis of this book is on the digitally mastered photos of butterflies/moths from all over the world.
Gift quality.......2006-03-17
I originally sent this to a friend for Christmas. Then I saw it in person and was enticed to buy one for my own collection. You will find it exquisitely illustrated. We will spend many afternoons enjoying this unusual book.
Stunningly detailed photos! Great gift for anyone!.......2004-12-30
I really enjoyed the detail in each of the photos of this book. In addition, each was labeled with the type of butterfly as well as where they are typically found. There are also a few very appropriate quotes in this beautiful coffee table edition. I received it as a gift, and I think it would make a great gift for anyone - older children interested in bugs, curious adults or even grandparents. This book is for anyone who enjoys the beauty in nature!
A wounderful book.......2004-10-02
This is a gorgous book. A totall mosaic of color and stunning details. Its increadible how the artist here captures the smallest pixles of a buterfly's wing. It a book to keep around for when you just need to look at something beutiful.
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Explore the weird world of carnivorous plants in this book, learning how and why these plants trap insects and other tiny prey. Instructions for growing some of the more common plants are included, along with experiments that deepen understanding of these oddballs of the plant world.
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