Lela and the Butterflies is an adorable picture book by Sherri Maret.

I LOVE butterflies, so this book was a natural pick for me. This picture book combines the love and joy of fun picture books with the excellence of learning from non-fiction. The butterfly walk is a great way to introduce butterflies and share some information with the book's audience. The illustrations are also beautiful, to top off this fantastic story!

I think this book would be suitable for Grade 1s and up.

Honestly, this book is a real gem! I love this story. It's a handy tool for learning that is also buckets of fun.

Four out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Rowman & Littlefield for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This was a well written children's book with plenty of pretty pictures and a simple storyline to engage readers. It's great to teach children about the stages of a butterfly and how to help to keep them safe.

This is a wonderful little children's book explaining butterflies and how to attract them to your yard. Lela loves butterflies and on a nature walk near her home she learned how to attract butterflies to her yard. The Ranger describes several different types of butterflies and the plants and flowers they love. Lela and her family create a garden at home with all the butterflies favorite flowers. The garden continues to grow and she shares her seeds with neighbors and with her class at school. This is a great book to get kids interested in creating a butterfly garden at home. There are step by step instructions at the back of the book on how to do this at your home as well.

I received an electronic ARC from Rowman & Littlefield through NetGalley.
Lela loves butterflies and learns all she can about them. I appreciate how the author weaves informative text into the narrative for elementary level readers. As the family joins Ranger Maggie on a nature walk, they see all sorts of butterflies in their natural habitats. After seeing the butterfly garden at the nature center, Lela wants to create one at her home. The family creates this space, and readers learn along with Lela when butterflies arrive. Finally, some monarchs lay their eggs and the life cycle is shared. The lesson to create more butterfly spaces is also woven in as Lela shares seeds from her garden with others.
The illustrations pull readers in and show realistic portrayals of the various butterflies.
Excellent book to introduce a butterfly unit for middle elementary level.

Lela loves butterflies, so when she hears of a butterfly walk to be held at a nature center, she asks to participate. During the educational walk, Ranger Maggie helps Lela identify various butterfly and plant species. Lela then learns how to plant a garden that will attract butterflies and other pollinators. She plants such a garden at home; and when she finds she has surplus seeds the following autumn, Lela and her classmates plant a butterfly garden at school. As the plants grow in the spring, she shares some of the plants with more individuals in order to create many more butterfly gardens.

This charmingly illustrated book attractively shows ethnically diverse characters while delivering a lesson in nature conservancy. It emphasizes the importance of choosing native plant species to attract the butterflies and other pollinators that are native to one’s area. Instructions detailing how to create a butterfly garden appear at the end of the book to encourage the reader to follow in Lela’s footsteps. As a bonus, Bookface (#Bookface) fans will appreciate the way that the illustrator portrays Lela on the front cover.

A fun and informative story about Lela and her quest to provide butterfly gardens all around her! There is information on planting and identifying butterflies as well.

This is a beautiful picture book. Lela loves butterflies and learning about them. The pictures are so life like and real.