Lemon Butterfly

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This abstract and artsy picture book is an amazing picture book because both the author and the illustrator have won the Hans Christian Andersen Award. A lemon butterfly searches for a field of flowers. To a butterfly, a field of flowers is the most beautiful thing in the world. The butterfly searches through real and imagined landscapes until it finally finds the water where it becomes a lemon butterfly fish.  There are many lessons along the way. Most of the illustrations are rendered in vivid colors, with a few being only black and white graphic forms. mjw
Title: Lemon Butterfly
Author: Cao Wenxuan
Illustrator: Roger Mello
Publisher: Reycraft Books. New York
Copyright: 2020
Original Language: Chinese
Original Publisher: China Children’s Press and Publication Group. China
Original Copyright: 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4788-6975-7
Hardcover pages: 32
Age range: 4-7
Genre: Picture Book
Author’s ethnicity: Chinese
Author’s residence: China
Illustrator’s ethnicity: Brazilian
Illustrator’s residence: Brazil
Awards: Both author and illustrator have won the Hans Christian Andersen Award
Subjects: Butterflies, Fish, Flowers, Horses, Insects, Mountains, Rivers

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