Summary:
Bob Barner again does an outstanding job of illustrating and explaining the different roles butterflies and dinosaurs played 248 million years ago. He also explains how the dinosaurs time ended in a short but understandable way but how butterflies survived and helped the earth continue on pursuing life.
Personal Response;
Great for young readers to learn about dinosaurs and butterflies. I would use this when doing the butterflies unit and exploring the different roles they play and we can also raise butterflies as a class project.

This story explains the connections between dinosaurs and butterflies before the extinction of dinosaurs. The book explains that butterflies helped herbivore dinosaurs eat by pollinating flowers and providing oxygen through the plants and flowers they helped grow. Since ash and dust covered most of the planet, many plants died and dinosaurs could no longer find food. However, butterflies lived because they were small enough to find nectar and enough air to breathe. The book discusses how important butterflies are to the past and current ecosystem and stresses how connected the species are.
Media: I thought crayon and maybe pastels but the book states paper collage
Genre: Informational ("Dinosaurs were accidental farmers that helped plants grown...as their feet opened the soil, and their droppings fertilized seeds.") ( )

30 months - a bit of a odd book, a picture book that includes a bunch of facts and tries to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs and the survival or smaller creatures such as butterflies. I suspect there are other books out there that have done this better. ( )

In my opinion, this is a great book for children. The concepts in the book are very informational about extinction and animals existence on Earth. The book is full of actual information about the creation of Earth and humans came to be part of the population.

The author takes the ideas and puts them into simple terms so the young reader can understand. There are some challenging vocabulary words, such as fertilized, herbivores, and nourish, which would sway my opinion of the book to be used with 3rd-6th graders and not the younger ones.

The pictures are very bright, bust, and colorful. Therefore, the reader’s attention is caught. Students who like learning about how things came about on Earth would really enjoy this book. Those who like facts would also enjoy this book.

The organization of the text is very sequential because it is about an event that happened. At the end of the book, there is a timeline to sum up the text and show a visual of the existence of different organisms on the Earth. On the very last page is a bunch of facts on different shaped bubbles. This would be engaging for students.

This book is great. It has great illustrations and the colors in the book work really good together that make the eye look at the whole page. It is also a great book for learning. It tells about the dinosaurs, explains how long ago they lived, as well as tells how butterflies roamed with them as well. I think that it is a fun book and children would be really interested in it. ( )