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This beautifully illustrated book provides young children with an excellent introduction to butterflies. The easy-to-understand style with which it is written makes it suitable to be read to young children, while those who have mastered some reading skills will enjoy this introduction to one of nature's marvels.

The complete life cycle of the Red Admiral butterfly is depicted in clear prose and beautiful watercolor illustrations. The book includes a glossary of entomological terms to help children build their scientific vocabulary.

This book explains the stages of complete and incomplete metamorphosis using butterflies, moths, wasps, mosquitoes, mantises, dragonflies, and cicadas as examples. The beautiful, full-color photographs complement the text and help make this a riveting book for children. The book was judged to be the Outstanding Children's Trade Book in the Field of Science in 1990.

This "gee whiz" book is sure to stimulate kids' interest in insects. After an introduction detailing insect anatomy and limits to their size, Facklam describes thirteen of the world's largest insects. The book's illustrations place the insects on common, recognizable objects to provide a sense of how large these bugs really are. The sight of a six-inch long Goliath beetle on a plate of cookies may make you feel squeamish, but it will delight the kids in your life.

Scholastic's the Magic School Bus : Butterfly and the Bog Beast : A Book About Butterfly Camouflage (Magic School Bus)
Nancy E. Krulik, 1996
Suggesting the name of Walkersville Elementary Butterflies for the soccer team, Phoebe is teased by her classmates, who believe butterflies are far from exciting until Ms. Frizzle takes them on another wild Magic School Bus ride.

Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants : A Book About Ants
Joanna Cole, 1996
Filming Keesha's pet ant for a science project fair, the students in Ms. Frizzle's class take a journey into the lives of ants during which they learn many fascinating facts about the ant community.

The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive (Magic School Bus (Cloth))
Joanna Cole, 1996
In their latest adventure, Ms. Frizzle and her class visit a beekeeper at his hive, and the bus mysteriously vibrates and shrinks, as the teacher and class journey inside the beehive to witness the extraordinary world of bees.

Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Going Batty : A Book About Bats (Magic School Bus)
Nancy E. Krulik, 1996
Driven batty by their lessons on nocturnal animals, the students in Ms. Frizzle's class participate in a nighttime adventure that is complicated by the bus's new wings and a rumor that Ms. Frizzle is a vampire.

The Magic School Bus Spins a Web : A Book About Spiders (Magic School Bus)
Publication date: November 1997
Although not yet published, if this book about spiders lives up to the others in the Magic Bus series, it's well worth the purchase price.

The Magic School Bus Hops Home : A Book About Animal Habitats
Patricia Relf, 1995
When a bullfrog hops out of the classroom window, Ms. Frizzle and her students take a wild ride from a frog's-eye-view to learn about animal habitats in a book that complements the new PBS animated series.

Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Gets Eaten : A Book About Food Chains
Patricia Relf, 1996
A class trip to the beach becomes an underwater lesson about food chains when Arnold and Keesha are challenged to discover what a tuna fish sandwich and some smelly green pond scum have in common.

The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor
Joanna Cole, 1994
On another special field trip aboard the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class journeys under the sea to learn about the ocean and the different creatures that live there. Reprint.

The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds : A Book About How Living Things Grow
Joanna Cole, 1995
The class decides to plant a garden and Miss Frizzle takes them on a zany field trip back to Phoebe's old school where they learn about the cycle of plant life and how living things grow.

The Magic School Bus Gets Planted : A Book About Photosynthesis
1997
The Magic School Bus takes Ms. Frizzle's class inside a plant to learn about photosynthesis.

Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad : A Book of Decomposition
Linda Beech, 1995
The students in Ms. Frizzle's class embark on another journey when the Magic School Bus tours a decomposing log that introduces the latter end of the life cycle and teaches readers that there's more to rot than meets the nose.

TThe Magic School Bus Wet All over : A Book About the Water Cycle (Magic School Bus
1996
Readers are invited to join Ms. Frizzle and her class on a wet and wild Magic School Bus ride through the water cycle that enables them to experience the processes of evaporation, condensation, and rain.

Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Shows and Tells : A Book About Archaeology (Magic School Bus)
Jackie Posner, 1997
During a Show and Tell contest, Arnold brings in a strange old object that nobody can identify but about which everyone makes wild guesses, and a trip on the Magic School Bus takes them on an archaeological dig.

The drawings that serve as the basis for this collection of peel-and-apply butterfly stickers were gathered from numerous antique sources. The stickers are colorful, accurate depictions of 88 different species; their names are given on the book cover, so you can stick and learn at the same time. Although we've included this activity book under the children's heading, given the quality of the stickers, the book may not just be for kids...

Little Butterflies Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Little Activity Books), John Green, 1993

Little Exotic Birds Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Little Activity Books), John Green, 1992

Dover has combined its various butterfly activity books--stickers, tattoos, coloring books, and so on-- into a single box to sell as a package that will provide hours of fun and education for kids.