Friends All A Flutter!

Owly & Wormy Friends All a Flutter is a wordless picture book by Andy Runton that was published in 2011. This wordless book is very much targeted towards pre-readers in the sense that the pictures are very juvenile and contain a lot of questions marks, explanation points, and other key commands that aid in comprehension of the images prior to being able to read text.  One key element of this story that aided in my comprehension was the summary of the plot on the front flap of the book.  Personally I often times struggle to understand stories that do not have text, so reading this quick summary  really helped me internalize the pictures in an easier manner.  Throughout the story, Owly is distraught over his plant and the fact that butterflies will not come fly around it as its growing.  However as the story goes on, readers follow Owly through pictures and his inner thoughts to in turn understand the life cycle of a butterfly.  This story would be a great piece of literature to incorporate into a science lesson of the life cycle of butterflies as students watch the caterpillar turn into a cocoon and then essentially a butterfly in the end.  The illustrations in this book are key in helping young readers rely on images to help them figure out words in a text.