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Discusses each stage of the tadpole's development as it becomes a toad or frog.

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.

Third-grader Katie Carew gains insight into the thinking of the class bully when she is magically transformed into a hamster--an animal the bully fears.

Katie, an ordinary third-grader who accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself, turns into her best friend Suzanne's baby sister, but the real trouble starts when she speaks, causing everyone to think the baby is a genius.

With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.

Explains how insects grow, describing the various stages of incomplete and complete metamorphosis.

Examines how butterflies reproduce and how caterpillars become butterflies.

Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly, too.

Simple text and illustrations depict how a caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly.

At head of title: The mystery of nature. Describes how the caterpillar becomes a graceful and colorful butterfly, an insect that can fly thousands of miles.

Contains information on the life cycle of the butterfly, as children in a classroom watch a caterpillar grow, disappear inside a shell it makes--a chrysalis--and comes out as a beautiful butterfly.

Presents an introduction to the concept of metamorphosis, in simple text with illustrations, describing what it is, and providing examples of different animals that it happens to, including butterflies, ladybugs, frogs, dragonflies, and grasshoppers.

A caterpillar does amazing tricks, like making leaves disappear and shedding its skin, and finally it performs the most amazing trick of all.

Arabella Miller discovers a tiny caterpillar and takes it home to care for it until it transforms into a beautiful butterfly.

Good friends Owly and Wormy are disappointed when their new plant attracts fat, green, bug-like things, instead of butterflies, until a metamorphosis occurs.