Summer birds : the butterflies of Maria Merian /
Margarita Engle ; pictures by Julie Paschkis.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Holt, 2010.
- [32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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A young girl goes against Medieval beliefs that insects are evil and secretly observes caterpillars as they form cocoons and are reborn as butterflies and moths.