Butterfly books for toddlers! Board books that toddlers can hold and manipulate as they learn about caterpillars and butterflies!
This spring and summer, fill your book basket with board books for toddlers about caterpillars and butterflies. This selection of fiction and nonfiction books are perfect for your little ones.
If you’ve got some toddlers and young preschoolers in your house or classroom, you’ll love this collection of butterfly books. It’s full of books all about both caterpillars and butterflies.
Butterfly Books for Toddlers
Below, I’ve featured just a handful of butterfly books for preschoolers that will help your little ones learn more about butterflies.
You should be able to find them at your local library or bookstore. If you can’t find them locally, you can click each image cover to purchase them on Amazon.
How Does a Butterfly Grow?
From egg to hungry caterpillar to to beautiful butterfly, this picture book with flaps follows the complete life cycle of a swallowtail. With sturdy board book pages and exciting flaps to lift, it’s the perfect life cycle book for young children.
Explore the amazing animal alphabet with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this delightful board book. Featuring Eric Carle’s bright, distinctive artwork, each letter introduces beloved animals, big and small.
Flutterby Butterfly is missing. Where has she gone? Is she hiding under a shell? No, that’s Top-Hat Tortoise! Is she munching on the leaves? No, that’s Curly Caterpillar! Children will love pushing out the sturdy sliders on each page of this board book until they find Flutterby Butterfly!
These colorful illustrations help toddlers learn to count and also include the name of each butterfly so learning happens on many levels, even for the adults reading the book.
Join ten flower friends for a night of excitement that mixes a little math with a lot of magic. As each flower turns into a butterfly, children will discover different ways to group numbers to create ten, an essential building block of math, all while watching each flower’s dream come true.
A caterpillar hatches. It eats and eats . . . and grows into a butterfly that flits and floats across the sky. Follow the life cycle of one of nature’s most beautiful creatures in simple text and stunning photos.
This beautiful butterfly lacing toy is great for practicing the sewing motion. It’s made of solid cherry wood, and finished with my homemade organic beeswax polish. The “needle” is attached to the natural cotton “thread” to make it easy to poke through the holes.
Tara is the brains behind Homeschool Preschool, where her journey from preschool and public school teacher to homeschooling mom of three fuels her passion for early childhood education. With a blend of expertise and firsthand experience, Tara’s writings offer practical tips and engaging resources to support families in creating meaningful learning adventures at home.
