Book Review: Have You Ever Met a Morphosis? (children's science book, butterflies)(OT)

Have You Ever Met a Morphosis? by Steven King (Steven King Publishing, 2019, 42 pages, $9.95 hardcover, ages 3-8)

Big Book

Have You Ever Met a Morphosis? is a big book for little hands with a story in pictures, in words and also on the front and back inside cover pages (if you look closely).

Fun poetry and colorful pictures support the educational lesson, that there are four stages in an insect's life. Creatively, the caterpillar (larva) is pictured eating and eating until he bursts his skin and his zipper-skin unzips to reveal a caterpillar inside that eats and eats until he too bursts his skin and so on.

The pupa stage, inside the chrysalis, is creatively illustrated as residing inside a green house attached to a twig: it has steps, a door and window, a mailbox and a chimney!

And to this reviewer who grew up watching Disney movies, the caterpillar and even the butterfly bear a resemblance to Jiminy Cricket!

Readers might also be intrigued by the glossary Mr. King adds for further information about this fascinating subject.