Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
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Some farms grow vegetables or grains, and some raise cows, sheep, chickens, or pigs. But have you ever heard of a butterfly farm? How do you raise a butterfly?
On a farm in Costa Rica, workers care for these delicate, winged creatures as they change from eggs to caterpillars to pupae. Like any other crop, the butterflies will eventually leave the farm. But where will they go? And just how do you ship a butterfly?
Very carefully! To discover how it works, follow these butterflies on a remarkable journey!
Loree Griffin Burns
LOREE GRIFFIN BURNS, Ph.D., did her doctoral at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The author of Beetle Busters, Tracking Trash, and The Hive Detectives, she is an award-winning writer whose books for young people have won many accolades, including ALA Notable designations, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Award, an IRA Children’s Book Award, a Green Earth Book Award and two Science Books & Films (SB&F) Prizes. Loree holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and her books draw heavily on both her passion for science and nature and her experiences as a working scientist. She lives with her husband and their three kids in a farmhouse in central New England, where she gardens, keeps chickens, and writes about science and scientists. She likes to think that one day she’ll fill the big old barn on their property with horses. Learn more about Loree at loreegriffinburns.com and follow her on Twitter @loreegburns.
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Reviews for Handle with Care
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A wonderful close up look at a butterfly farm in Costa Rica, beautifully illustrated with color photographs.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Explores how caterpillars turn into butterflies through the journey of a chrysalis that originates in a butterfly farm in Costa Rica and winds up in a museum in Boston.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"...Have you ever heard of a butterfly farm? How do you raise a butterfly?"This book, aimed at children in middle grades, answers those questions.With beautiful, up-close photography Handle With Care shows the journey of a caterpillar to a butterfly from El Bosque Nuevo Farm in Costa Rica to The Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts. This unique farm shows the process of raising butterflies and has stunning pictures of their life cycle before they are shipped around the world for other people to enjoy. The three pictures near the end of a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis make it seem like you are watching it happen in person. The end of the book contains a lot of good information for lesson planning or more curious learners with vocabulary words and more information on life cycles. This book was received for free in return for an honest review.