Butterfly Books for Kids + Books About Caterpillars

Butterfly loves playing the flute. Who wants to join her marching band?

Find out in this rhyming, silicone touch-and-feel book that is sure to please your little music fan. The touch-and-feel silicone textures add a sensory element to this book for toddlers.

Butterflies are all around us. It’s hard to believe these majestic insects with impressive wingspans and beautifully colored and patterned wings were once creepy crawly caterpillars. How in the world does this transformation happen? This Level 1 Reader gives kids an up-close look at exactly how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

Discover how caterpillars grow, what happens inside a chrysalis, how butterflies find mates, and how they stay safe out in the wild.

Learn all about 32 different butterflies commonly found in North America. Explore where and when you can spot different butterflies, what they like to eat, and other fun facts that make each species unique.

With a little help from the Cat in the Hat, Sally, and Dick observe a small miracle in their own backyard—the metamorphosis of an egg into a caterpillar into a chrysalis into a bright new butterfly!

Watch a butterfly grow!  Babies and toddlers will love lifting the big flaps to find five peekaboo surprises pop up from the pages showing the different stages of a butterfly’s life cycle: eggs on a leaf, caterpillars hatching, a cozy chrysalis, a butterfly emerging, and eggs being laid all over again. 

The Magnificent Butterfly follows a baby caterpillar who looks different from the other caterpillars around him. On his quest to fit in and be like the others, he realizes we are all magnificent in our own way.

In Explore My World Butterflies, curious kids ages 3 to 7 will be excited to learn about the magical world of butterflies: their beauty, their importance to plant life, and their incredible metamorphosis and migration.

This colorful book, filled with amazing real-life images, combines fun with education to help you learn all about butterflies.

This clever send-up of every child’s biggest challenge―being patient!―is a STEM-friendly, laugh-out-loud comedy about metamorphosis.

Part of the incredible six-book Nature Books series from the award-winning duo of Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long, A Butterfly Is Patient celebrates a dazzling variety of butterflies in all their beauty and wonder.

This colorful pre-reader uses simple vocabulary and fun pictures to capture the interest and help develop the skills of beginning readers. The fun, informative facts about one of kids’ favorite creatures make this new reading experience a treat.

If at first you don’t succeed, fly, fly again! This comical companion to Ross Burach’s The Very Impatient Caterpillar pays loving homage to every child’s struggle to persist through challenges while also delivering a lighthearted lesson on butterfly migration.

The process of a new life starting is fascinating! Watch a butterfly grow from an egg to an insect. Young readers will learn about the stages in a butterfly’s life. From a tiny egg to a chrysalis and, finally, a brightly-colored butterfly! The life cycle of a butterfly is a beautiful thing to see.

Follow the transformation from a tiny white egg laid on a leaf to a brilliantly colored butterfly in this kid-friendly introduction to metamorphosis.  With detailed, bright watercolors, Gail Gibbons illustrates the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, stage by stage, as it grows, changes, and takes flight.

In this nonfiction story, young readers can explore the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly. The miracles of nature come to life in this early-learning series centered around life cycles, featuring simple text and Eric Carle’s classic illustrations!

Caterpillar crawls from leaf to leaf, eating and waiting, all alone in a big, green world. Then Orange appears―Orange floats, and flits, and flies, graceful and beautiful. In this sweet, moving story of intergenerational friendship, a small caterpillar is befriended by a glorious monarch butterfly, and together they learn to see the world through each other’s eyes.

A captivating and child-friendly look at the extraordinary journey that monarch butterflies take each year from Canada to Mexico; with a text in both English and Spanish.

Mysterious, miraculous, and utterly beautiful, butterflies are nature’s harbingers of peace, beauty, and new beginnings. Now, in the Little Book of Butterflies, part of My Little Library of Natural History, kids can meet them all! They’ll learn interesting details about each butterfly’s region, behavior, camouflage, and amazing transformation from caterpillar to winged beauty.