The fantasy and the realism make the nature story fun for home and classroom.-Rochman, Hazel Copyright 2008 Booklist From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. An author's final note fills in the facts about the life cycle. Then Houdini hangs suspended in a small chrysalis no food, no water, for almost two weeks and the class watches with mounting suspense until he breaks free and the gorgeous butterfly fills the spread. Then he gets jealous when they switch attention to the turtle, the spider, and the plants, and a great illustration shows him seething ( What's the big deal? he asks about the spider). Big, clear artwork in watercolors and liquid inks shows the smiling, hungry little caterpillar basking in the attention from a teacher and pupils who make drawings of him and watch as he sheds his skin. The metamorphosis from egg to caterpillar to butterfly is as thrilling as any fairy-tale transformation, and this picture book tells the astonishing science through the personal viewpoint of Houdini, a tiny caterpillar in a dynamic grade-school classroom.
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