"Gramma Tinker is acting strangely ? even for a really old caterpillar who is always inventing things. One day, worker ants Leaf and Lu, who often visit Gramma in her cherry tree, are fascinated to find her creating what she calls her greatest invention yet: the Wingmaker 77. Gramma is busily preparing for an upcoming adventure, and Leaf and Lu can?t imagine what it might be ? especially when she mysteriously explains that she?ll rest inside the Wingmaker...

A caterpillar does amazing tricks, like making leaves disappear and shedding its skin, and finally it performs the most amazing trick of all. Includes facts about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly.

"What's that wedged in a crack in the ground, small and hard and wrinkly and brown? A bean seed! Soon it develops roots and leaves. And what's that on the leaf? An egg! The egg hatches a caterpillar, and the caterpillar eats the leaves, getting bigger and bigger until it forms a chrysalis. Meanwhile, the plant is growing, too: it develops flowers, then bean pods, as it reaches up toward the sun. Side by side, plant and insect grow . . . and grow ....

Introduces readers to butterflies and the process by which they go from being an egg, to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis, and finally to a butterfly.

The hungry caterpillar and his friends enjoy the sensory experiences of summer, like listening to noisy bugs, feeling the warm sunshine, smelling the yummy scents of a cookout, and more.

"This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a ladybug's body parts and behaviors"--

"This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a butterfly's body parts, behaviors, and life cycle"--

"RSVP and join the ball--a moth ball--and study backyard moths. Captivating photographs show how to lure in moths in order to study and appreciate them. Approachable text with direct address to the reader shows the magic of being a citizen scientist right in your own back yard."--

A young girl dreams of a time when the land and sky belonged to the mariposas amarillas, or yellow butterflies, and tries to re-create their glory with paper and glue.