{"product_id":"usborne-beginners-caterpillars-and-butterflies","title":"Beginners: Caterpillars and Butterflies","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Usborne Beginners reader about the one transformation every young child wants explained. Short sentences, large type, and a photograph or a painted illustration on every page, so the life cycle is shown rather than described.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLots of legs, across pages 8 and 9, gives a whole spread to a single emperor gum moth caterpillar, green and studded with orange and blue, walking a stem from one page onto the next, with the text pointing out that the front six legs are stiff for grabbing food while the back ones are fat and suckered for gripping the twig. Three small loopers at the foot show how a body stretches out and pulls its back end up to meet the front. A new body, on pages 16 and 17, has a monarch hanging from its split pupa with its wings spread and drying, and a blue box beside it notes that a butterfly does not grow after hatching and stays that size for life. What is a moth, on pages 20 and 21, sets an emperor moth with eyespots against a lemon yellow Madagascan moon moth trailing long tails, and adds two small panels, one on the fat furry bodies that keep moths warm on cold nights and one on the feathery feelers that sense objects in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty two pages at about 6.1 by 8.3 inches, measured at Lexile 630L, written by Stephanie Turnbull and illustrated by Rosanne Guille and Uwe Mayer. Printed page numbers throughout, so a child can be sent to a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 32 pages, 6.1 by 8.3 in (156 by 210 mm), from the Usborne Beginners series. Usborne Publishing Ltd., May 2025. ISBN-13 9781836050421. Publisher age guidance: 4 and up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same series takes on other subjects in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-weather\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Weather\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-horses-and-ponies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Horses and Ponies\u003c\/a\u003e. Two sticker books sit alongside it for a younger hand: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-butterflies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLittle First Stickers Butterflies\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-bugs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eFirst Sticker Book Bugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo more Usborne Beginners readers joined the shelf: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-trees\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Trees\u003c\/a\u003e, on how a tree feeds itself and who lives in one, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-storms-and-hurricanes\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Storms and Hurricanes\u003c\/a\u003e, on lightning, dust storms and gales.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48250876854502,"sku":"9781836050421","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/39402948034790.jpg?v=1787956614","url":"https:\/\/shop.stellarluxe.com\/products\/usborne-beginners-caterpillars-and-butterflies","provider":"Stellar Luxe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}