I thought that I would share with your our favorite Caterpillar & Butterfly study books that we used while raising our caterpillar larvae :)
Raising Minibeasts ~ Caterpillars by Barrie Watts is a great one to start with. The information is nice and simple so your youngest children can enjoy it, covers everything and even includes a really easy project on how to build your own screen house for raising your caterpillars inside.
The Life Cycle of a Butterfly by Bobbie Kalman is more than just about the butterfly life cycles! There are really neat sidebars with fun information, how to identify male & female butterflies, migration info, what to plant in your own butterfly garden and how to pamper visiting butterflies :)
The Life of a Butterfly by Clare Hibbert is another great book with great photos, Q&A throughout to quiz your children as you go along to see what they remember and really neat info on how parasites feed off of caterpillars!
National Geographic's Face to Face With Caterpillars by Darlyne A. Murawski has absolutely stunning photos!! This one is great for your older child as it goes into a little more depth than the others by going into detail about their anatomy and more and it covers caterpillars from around the globe. If anything you have to see this book just for the pictures *grin*. Some of them are really bizarre looking!
And last but not least, what would a butterfly study be without Ms. Frizzle and the Magic Schoolbus!? Butterfly Battle has the class turned into butterflies as they struggle to survive. The short novel is peppered with tons of great information like how to tell a moth and a butterfly apart, how the scales on a butterflies wings help give it its unique color and much more :)
