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Keywords

acceptance, appearance, beauty, body image, cricket, dragonfly, feelings, happiness, insects, sadness, self esteem, spider, verbal communication

Title

I wish I were a butterfly

Description

A little cricket is sad and wishes to be a beautiful butterfly. Through talking to an older cricket, the littlest cricket soon realized, that he too, was beautiful.

Author

Howe, James

Publisher

Harcourt Brace and Co.

Illustrator

ISBN

0-15-200470-X

City of Publication

Orlando, Florida

Year of Publication

1987

Author of Abstract

Abstract provided by Alison Long, 1995

Citation

Howe, James, “I wish I were a butterfly,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed December 4, 2023, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/7488.