Butterfly House Clara Caterpillar Gotta Go! Gotta Go! E/Bunting E/Edwards E/Swope With the help of her grandfather, a little By camouflaging herself, Clara Caterpillar, Although she does not know why or how, a girl makes a house for a caterpillar and who becomes a cream-colored butterfly, small creepy-crawly insect is certain that watches it develop into a butterfly. courageously saves Catisha the crimson- she must make her way to Mexico. colored butterfly from a hungry crow. The Very Hungry Caterpillar The Butterfly Hunt E/Carle Isabel’s House of Butterflies E/Yoshi A hungry little caterpillar eats his way E/Johnston A boy captures jars full of butterflies but through an array of foods from leaves to Eight-year-old Isabel comes up with an seeing the beautiful insects confined, lollipops until he is finally full and ready ingenious plan to save her favorite decides that it is more fun to carry home for change. butterfly tree and provide an income for memories than living things. her poor family in Mexico. Butterfly Count Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies E/Collard The Caterpillar and the Polliwog J398.245/Taylor Amy and her mother look for a very special E/Kent When the butterflies play a trick on poor butterfly while attending the annual Fourth Impressed by the proud caterpillar’s boast Coyote, they laugh so hard about their joke of July Butterfly Count at a prairie that she will turn into a butterfly when she that they cannot fly straight. restoration site. grows up, a polliwog determines to turn into a butterfly too. From Caterpillar to Butterfly The Prince of the Butterflies J571.815/Legg E/Coville Butterfly Boy Large illustrations and simple text describe While surrounded by thousands of E/Kroll how caterpillars become butterflies. butterflies, eleven-year-old John becomes A boy and his grandfather joyfully watch a transformed into one of them and finds his gathering of butterflies in Mexico. I’m a Caterpillar entire life altered because of this J595.78/Marzollo experience. The Butterflies Promise The caterpillar explains what happens as it E/Ovenell changes into a butterfly. Why Butterflies Go on Silent Wings Milly loves working with her grandfather in E/Davol his flower garden, and wonders what she When the world was young, butterflies can do to cheer him up when he has to were so noisy that they did not see the leave his garden and live in a nursing home. beauty around them—until a great storm transformed and silenced them. Florida Museum of Natural History Come face-to-face with hundreds of vibrant butterflies as you follow a mean- dering walking trail surrounded by subtropical and tropical plants and trees and cascading waterfalls. The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity Exhibits Gallery features information on butterfly and moth biology on the "Wall of Wings" and stories of biological research on the "World of Wings" map. Waiting for Wings Alachua County Library District J595.789/Ehlert Take a journey through Ehlert’s vibrant HEADQUARTERS collages to watch a caterpillar 401 E. University Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32601 metamorphose into a butterfly. VOICE (352) 334-3900 • TDD (352) 334-3904 www.acld.lib.fl.us The Butterfly Book Alachua Branch J595.789/Hamilton 14913 NW 140 Street, Alachua, (386) 462-2592 This reader friendly guide will give you tips Archer Branch on attracting butterflies into your own 204 N University Avenue, Archer, (352) 495-3367 back yard! Hawthorne Branch 6640 SE 221 Street, Hawthorne, (352) 481-1920 Butterflies High Springs Branch 135 NW 1st Avenue, High Springs, (386) 454-2515 J595.789/Latimer Micanopy Branch Using a system of identification, this Micanopy Town Hall, Micanopy, (352) 466-3122 Peterson guide helps young readers Millhopper Branch identify various butterflies. 3145 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville, (352) 334-1272 An Extraordinary Life: Newberry Branch 110 S Seaboard Drive, Newberry, (352) 472-1135 Butterflies The Story of a Monarch Butterfly Tower Road Branch for young readers J595.789/Pringle 3020 SW 75th Street, Gainesville, (352) 333-2840 Amazing photographs follow one particular Waldo Branch monarch named Danaus, introducing readers 14257 Cole Street, Waldo, (352) 468-3298 to the feeding habits, migration, predators, For Information on: and mating of the famous butterflies. Bookmobile stops, call (352) 334-3993 Homebound Service, call (352) 334-3956 Telephone Renewals, call (352) 334-3950 Becoming Butterflies J595.789/Rockwell Florida Museum of Natural History A class observes the various stages University of Florida Cultural Plaza caterpillars go through to become butterflies. P.O. Box 112710, S.W. 34th St. & Hull Road Gainesville, FL 32611 Selected materials from the collection Where Butterflies Grow (352) 846-2000 • www.flmnh.ufl.edu Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. of the Alachua County Library District for J595.789/Ryder Sundays and state holidays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. the Florida Museum of Natural History’s What does it feel like to change from a Prepared by the staff of the Alachua County Library District caterpillar into a butterfly? Includes in partnership with the Florida Museum of Natural History. gardening tips to attract butterflies..