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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #876567 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review

One day many years ago, as I was looking through a microscope at a tropical moth, to my surprise I noticed a tiny, perfect letter F hidden on the wing. I was astounded and wondered if I could find other letters. Perhaps I could even find the entire alphabet in the wings of butterflies and moths! I decided that I was going to be the first to try.

So wrote Kjell B. Sandved in his introduction to The Butterfly Alphabet. Little did he know that it would take him more than 25 years, with visits to more than 30 countries, to discover and photograph all the letters of the alphabet in butterfly wings. This glorious book is the fruit of his labours. On each spread, you'll find a picture of the whole butterfly or moth and its common name, with a full-page, full-colour close-up of the letter on the creature's tiny wing scales on the adjacent page. A gentle poem accompanies the flight from A to Z as well: "On wings aloft across the skies-- / An alphabet of butterflies. / Each butterfly in secret brings / A letter hidden in its wings." A few butterfly basics and a glossary of the species featured in the book close this fascinating, loving, photographic ode to the order Lepidoptera. (Ages 4 to 104) --Karin Snelson

From the Author
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BUTTERFLY ALPHABET
I HAVE MUCH MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THEBUTTERFLY ALPHABET WHICH TOOK ME OVER 24 YEARS TO FIND. END

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Customer Reviews

truly amazing!
it is so creative and amazing. what a wonderful view of how beautiful nature is.