Butterfly Garden
1 - The Butterfly Garden - book by Laura Weston. There are lots of great butterfly books out there- some are more technical / educational and some pure art / fiction. This one is so simple but so beautiful. With just a few words on each page that do indeed chronicle the butterfly lifecycle in an abstract way, this lift the flap book features bold black and white prints that lift to reveal bright developing butterflies underneath. It's simple enough for very young toddlers
Some Bugs
I love nonfiction books for young kids, but the ones that really scream "nonfiction" (full of factoids, with photos instead of art illustrations) just don't feel like bedtime stories to me. That's why I love books like Some Bugs (and the whole gorgeous An Egg Is / A Nest Is / A Butterfly Is etc series by Dianna Hutts Aston). This would be so cute paired with a little observational bug catcher - my preschool daughter spends her spring and summer afternoons catching roly poly
