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Butterflies

Non-fiction to tickle your fancy and make your heart flutter
11 Apr 2016

Non-fiction to tickle your fancy and make your heart flutter

by Zoe | posted in: Jess French, Jonathan Woodward, Keith Finch | 1

As our days in the Northern Hemisphere lengthen and warm up, we’re beginning to spend more and more time outdoors, often inspired by the great books we’ve been sharing as a family, most recently Fluttering Minibeast Adventures and Tickly Minibeast … Continued

Bugs, Butterflies, Nature, Nonfiction
Dear Bunny: On gratitude and butterflies
22 Oct 2015

Dear Bunny: On gratitude and butterflies

by Zoe | posted in: Blanca Gómez, Katie Cotton | 2

I thought I could begin this post by asking whether you want your kids to be happy. But I figured that even as a rhetorical question, it seemed a little silly. Of course we want our kids to be happy. … Continued

Butterflies, Emotions, Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness, Rabbits
Butterflies, mud and stick-on velcro
16 Aug 2010

Butterflies, mud and stick-on velcro

by Zoe | posted in: Julie Paschkis, Margarita Engle | 7

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian by Margarita Engle and Julie Paschkis was a book I made a point of recently tracking down. It is about butterflies, a biography of a talented and independent woman of the sort I … Continued

Butterflies, Metamorphosis, Women role models

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