15 Nonfiction Books About Butterflies for Preschoolers

As winter fades to spring, keep an eye out for caterpillars. Then, read one or two of these nonfiction books about butterflies for more information.

Where do butterflies live? What do they eat? How do they grow? These nonfiction books will help preschoolers learn more about how caterpillars turn into butterflies and how butterflies live.

Nonfiction Books About Butterflies

Below, I’ve featured just a handful of nonfiction books that will help your preschoolers learn 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.

Caterpillar to Butterfly

Readers will learn all about the amazing changes a monarch butterfly undergoes during its life cycle, and how it fits into its ecosystem.

Explore My World: Butterflies

Curious kids will be excited to learn about the magical world of butterflies: their beauty, their importance to plant life, and their incredible metamorphosis and migration.

Butterflies for Kids

Butterflies for Kids answers all your questions with fascinating facts, photos, and illustrations. Learn about the butterfly life cycle, their unusual behaviors, and impressive migrations.

Caterpillar to Butterfly

Butterflies are all around us. It’s hard to believe these majestic insects with impressive wingspans and beautifully colored and patterned wings were once creepy crawly caterpillars. How in the world does this transformation happen?

A Butterfly’s Life

Amazon.com: A Butterfly’s Life (TIME FOR KIDS® Nonfiction Readers): 9781433335877: Dona Herweck Rice: Books

Butterflies

Making the yearly trip from the Northern United States and Canada to the Oyamel forest of Mexico is no easy task, and it takes five generations of butterflies in order to do so.

I Wish I Was a Monarch Butterfly

Explore the lives of monarch butterflies with Ranger Rick in this beginning reader with full-color photos of monarchs in the wild!

Butterflies and Moths

Want to learn all about Butterflies? Then come touch, read, and discover all about butterflies and moths with your toddler and Smithsonian Kids!

The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies

Children have lots of questions about the world around them, and this book helps them discover many amazing and wonderful scientific facts about butterflies.

My, Oh My — A Butterfly!

With a little help from the Cat in the Hat, Sally and Dick observe a small miracle in their own backyard—the metamorphosis of an egg into a caterpillar into a chrysalis into a bright new butterfly!

The Truth About Butterflies

This guide to the majestic butterfly walks you through its unique life cycle and offers anything you ever wanted to know about the colorful insect… perfect for bug lovers and insect enthusiasts!

My First Book About Butterflies

Did you know that caterpillars turn into butterflies? Did you know that butterflies fly thousands of miles from one country to another? Learn these facts and more in this book!

Born to Be a Butterfly

Children who are just learning to read will love to discover the changes that turn a caterpillar into a butterfly. Experience the exciting journey from the cocoon to the skies!

Waiting for Wings

With a simple, rhyming text and glorious color-drenched collage, this story follows the life cycle of four common butterflies, from their beginnings as tiny hidden eggs and hungry caterpillars to their transformation into full-grown butterflies.

Monarch Butterfly

Introduce young readers to the fascinating process of how caterpillars become butterflies.

Which of these books about butterflies will you read first?

Tara

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.