Russell, Sharman Apt An obsession with butterflies; our long love affair with a singular insect.RUSSELL, Sharman Apt. An obsession with butterflies; our long love affair with a singular insect. Perseus. 298p. illus. bibliog. index. c2003. 0-465-07180-0. $14.00. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. Butterflies have always titillated tit·il·late v. tit·il·lat·ed, tit·il·lat·ing, tit·il·lates v.tr. 1. To stimulate by touching lightly; tickle. 2. To excite (another) pleasurably, superficially or erotically. the imagination of writers and poets and scientists. Russell has written a book that has captured both the poetry and science of butterflies in her distinct writing style, which often resembles a lyrical lyr·i·cal adj. 1. a. Expressing deep personal emotion or observations: a dancer's lyrical performance; a lyrical passage in his autobiography. b. sound bite sound bite n. A brief statement, as by a politician, taken from an audiotape or videotape and broadcast especially during a news report: "The box has been spitting forth maddening nine-second sound bites" . She sometimes anthropomorphizes so that the reader becomes a butterfly butterfly, any of a large group of insects found throughout most of the world; with the moths, they comprise the order Lepidoptera. There are about 12 families of butterflies. Most adult moths and butterflies feed on nectar sucked from flowers. , and at other times looks at butterflies through the eyes of a 19th-century collector or a 21st-century scientist. The text is accompanied by b/w drawings that are bit muddy compared to her colorful prose; but in any case, she conveys the feeling that a butterfly has lit on the leaves of this book even as she was writing it. J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. Nola Theiss, Sanibel, FL |
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