Discover all the fascinating steps involved in the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly.

Follow the detailed progression of a butterfly's life from its beginnings as an egg, to forming a pupa and its stunning evolution into a butterfly.

Life cycles is a vibrantly designed and illustrated series on this essential, ever-popular topic. Each book in the series features the beautiful artwork of Stephanie Fizer Coleman depicting how a plant or animal evolves from birth to adulthood. Highly accessible text accompanies each image explaining the process of life cycles and a full image of the entire life cycle is presented on the final spread. The books also feature a wealth of extra information and suggested activities at the back. A brilliant guide for children aged 4+ studying life cycles at school.

Other titles in the series include:
Tadpole to Frog
Egg to Chicken
Acorn to Oak Tree

This book is part of a book series called Life Cycles .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Hachette Children's Group .

Rachel Tonkin is an experienced non fiction children's writer and is also a previous editor of children's non fiction. Amongst her works are a simply explained set of life cycle books written in highly accessible text for children age 5 and up.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Laying eggs
• 2: Inside the egg
• 3: New caterpillar
• 4: Shedding skin
• 5: Fully grown
• 6: Pupa
• 7: Changing
• 8: New butterfly
• 9: Flying away
• 10: Butterfly life cycle
• 11: Butterfly facts
• 12: Quiz
• 13: Activities
• 14: Butterfly words
• 15: Index