From Caterpillar to Butterfly

by Anita Ganeri

Part of a series which looks at the life cycles of familiar animals and plants. This title contains Question boxes which encourage children to make predictions about what is coming up in the text. It includes animal and plant maps, and life cycle diagrams which summarise the life cycles with artwork and key information.

32 pages, Library Binding

Published September 15, 2005

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Christine Zandt · Rating 1 out of 5]

Beware that this "nonfiction" book contains incorrect information. For example, it's stated that the monarch caterpillar in its last molt has "a hard case under the skin." The caterpillar, in fact, is sort of a soft, lumpy green burrito at this point and can be easily damaged due to its gelatinous state.

Another error is the information, "It takes the butterfly about an hour to get out of its chrysalis." While it takes two or more hours for the butterfly to dry and pump up to full size after it has completely emerged from its chrysalis, it actually emerges from its chrysalis in a matter of minutes.