Mariana Jäntti (Author)

Beautifully written in simple language, this story captures the tumultuous feelings that teens and pre-teens experience. Excitement, fear, anticipation, apprehension, curiosity, separation, and loss are all part caterpillars Matilde and Clotilde's experience when they become butterflies. As pre-adolescents identify with the image of metamorphosis so succinctly described, they are reassured that true friendship can and does transcend change.