The Butterfly Alphabet (tr Pb)

Product Description Amazon.com Review "One day many years ago as I was looking through a microscope at a tropical moth to my surprise I noticed a tiny perfect letter F hidden on the wing. I was astounded and wondered if I could find other letters. Perhaps I could even find the entire alphabet in the wings of butterflies and moths! I decided that I was going to be the first to try." So wrote Kjell B. Sandved in his introduction to The Butterfly Alphabet. Little did he know that it would take him more than 25 years with visits to more than 30 countries to discover and photograph all the letters of the alphabet in butterfly wings. This glorious book is the fruit of his labors. On each spread youll find a picture of the whole butterfly or moth and its common name with a full-page full-color close-up on the adjacent page of the letter on the creatures tiny wing scales. A gentle poem accompanies the flight from A to Z as well: "On wings aloft across the skies-- / An alphabet of butterflies. / Each butterfly in secret brings / A letter hidden in its wings." A few butterfly basics and a glossary of the species featured in the book close this fascinating loving photographic ode to the order Lepidoptera. (Ages 4 to 104) --Karin Snelson