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Genre/Form: | Picture books for children Children's stories Picture books Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Madison, Alan. Velma Gratch & the way cool butterfly. New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, 2007 (OCoLC)608131127 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Primary school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Madison; Kevin Hawkes |
ISBN: | 9780375835971 0375835970 9780375935978 0375935975 |
OCLC Number: | 76135963 |
Awards: | Winner of Lupine Award (Picture Book) 2007 Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (Primary) 2010 Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Picture Book) 2010 Short-listed for Charlotte Award (Primary) 2010 Short-listed for Black-Eyed Susan Award (Picture Book) 2008 Short-listed for Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award 2009 |
Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm |
Contents: | "The Butterfly Conservatory was a magical space that Velma had only dreamt of. Inside, butterflies of every color -- giant swallowtails, shorttailed skippers, pygmy blues, and best of all, monarchs -- flew up to forever. A tear formed in a distant corner of her eye. All she wanted was one single tingly touch of a butterfly ... even though that might hurt it. But Velma couldn't. She couldn't hurt a butterfly." |
Other Titles: | Velma Gratch and the way cool butterfly |
Responsibility: | written by Alan Madison ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. |
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Fitting Into First Grade
Velma gets off to a bad start in 1<sup>st</sup> grade because her teachers only remember her older 2 sisters’ names and how wonderful they were. She overcompensates by becoming the worst at the very things her sisters did...
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Velma gets off to a bad start in 1<sup>st</sup> grade because her teachers only remember her older 2 sisters’ names and how wonderful they were. She overcompensates by becoming the worst at the very things her sisters did best, like running, singing, and math. She ends up in the principal’s office but at least she gets noticed. One day there’s a lesson about butterflies. Velma loves science and so she researches butterflies on her own. She learns that there are 20,000 different kinds, some with strange names, like painted lady and frosted flasher. Monarchs migrate to Mexico to stay warm. So does her family. On a school trip to the conservatory, a monarch lights on her fingertip and continues to accompany her everywhere… ballet, gym class, bed, even her next visit to the principal’s office. But oh joy, she is popular now with the kids! She takes the clinging butterfly outside. It’s time. They all watch it migrate with its many butterfly friends to Mexico.
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by elfgreen updated 2019-03-11