The Life Cycles of Butterflies: From Egg to Maturity, a Visual Guide to 23 Common Garden Butterflies

For everyone who has ever marveled as a butterfly magically emerges from a chrysalis, this book is a treasure chest of amazing butterfly transformations. You are invited to experience the life cycles of  common backyard butterflies in this unique collection of hundreds of stunning, full-color, up-close photos, all taken in a live garden setting. Each butterfly is shown from start to maturity, with sequential photographs of the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and emerging butterfly. This richly visual guide to the life cycles of butterflies will appeal to wildlife enthusiasts, gardeners, teachers, and families alike.
This book has earned two national awards from Learning Magazine --
(1) Teacher's Choice Award for "Children's Books"
(2) Teacher's Choice Award for "Product of Excellence for the Family."

There are so many wonderful aspects of this book.  First the photography will blow you away.  These pictures were taken in Judy and her brother's garden as they were documenting these beautiful creatures....If you love butterflies, then I recommend you add this book to your library.  I think it makes a great gift for children, teachers, wildlife enthusiasts and gardeners. 
-- Donna Donabella (GardensEyeView.com)

If we can just encourage people to care about nature on a personal level it will change their lives forever.  And we know from our own experiences that families who share their outdoor activities together form closer bonds to each other.  Our childhood love for butterflies fueled our quest to become naturalists and has led us on the adventure of a lifetime as we grew into nature photographers, authors and public speakers.

Naturalists Judy Burris and Wayne Richards, a sister-brother author team, have been intrigued with butterflies since they were children. They have spent many years observing, raising, and photographing these miraculous creatures along with many other insects and animals. Their butterfly book (The Life Cycles of Butterflies) has earned two national awards from Learning Magazine -- a Teacher's Choice Award for "Children's Books" and a "Product of Excellence for the Family." Their bugs book (The Secret Lives of Backyard Bugs) won the NOBA -National Outdoor Book Award - and also the Teacher's Choice Award for "Product of Excellence for the Family".  Their nature book (Nature's Notes) won Creative Child Magazine's "PREFERRED CHOICE AWARD" in the Kids Educational Books category, as well as the Mom's Choice Awards GOLD seal for best in family-friendly products, and also FIRST PLACE for the Royal Dragonfly Book Award in the category of photography.  Judy and Wayne live in northern Kentucky and travel around giving nature presentations at Master Gardener events, libraries, schools, nature preserves and many other venues.