Look, a Butterfly!

Description

Look! A white butterfly! Flit and flutter through the blue sky. The butterfly comes to rest on a flower, and-pop-the flower opens. Pop! Pop! Pop! All the flowers open: red, blue yellow, pink, orange... Flutter flit through the sky. The butterfly lands on a cat, and ... meeeoow! Let's play! Look, a Butterfly! is a simple, appealing board book told in shapes and colours.

Yasunari Murakami was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. His illustrations have been honoured at the Bolgona Book Fair, the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava, and with the Japan Picture Book Award, and there is a Yasunari Murakami Museum in the Izu Highland, Japan. Three of Murakami's picture books have received a Special Mention in the Graphic Prize for Children at the Bologna Children's Book Fair and his Pink! Pearl! won a Gold Plaque at the 1991 Biennial of illustrations in Bratislava. Murakami's hobby is fishing, for which he makes many trips to different parts of the world.

"I am smitten with this board book for babies and young toddlers. So much so, it is destined to be my new go-to baby-shower gift." -- Otago Daily Times (NZ) "Murakami's eye-catching illustrations, painted in striking contrasts, and the use of repetition as the butterfly journeys across the pages make this ideal for little ones to follow and enjoy as the story is read aloud" -- Black Pool Gazette (UK) "This is a very simple story that resonates with a sense of wonder and delight...They will giggle over the repeated "pop, pop, pop" too. I can just see Dads and babies having a ball as they find silly and creative ways of "popping" like the flower buds in the story." -- The Book Chook (AU)