The Butterfly and the Polar Bear
Trevor and ChloeSambrooks, Chloe Sambrooks
language
(Trevor Sambrooks, July 21, 2014)
THIS BOOK IS FULL COLOUR AND DOES NOT WORK WELL WITH GREYSCALE KINDLES.I love the way kids tell stories. They have a great ability to capture each other's imaginations in a unique way. This story came about after I told my daughter, Chloe (5) that her butterfly picture had come to life and flown out of the window. Where did it go? What did it see? What did it want to do? How did it do it? These thoughts enthused her so much that the story just flowed out with very little prompting from me. I recorded it and played it back to her for a bedtime story. She was delighted by the result and still asks me to play it back to her even now. Chloe provides her own pictures which were drawn into a cut-and-stick book and later used in an animated short. The book makes use of both the cut-and-stick pictures and still shots from the animation. The Butterfly and the Polar Bear tells the story of a long journey by a small butterfly to do something he'd always wanted to do: See a polar bear. After looking in the most likely place ("Grandma's house, of course!") the butterfly makes an epic journey featuring: The North Pole, flight over land and sea, icebergs, flowers, a polar bear, ice and snow and a problem with the cold. But the polar bear has an idea to help the butterfly stay warm and prepare to fly home.Come along and enjoy a most unlikely journey in the words of a child to her peers.