Why Butterflies go by on Silent Wings

Why Butterflies go by on Silent Wings is written by Marguerite W. Davol and illustrated by Robert Roth.
Picture book
2nd - 4th Grade
3 out of 5
This book is about the world long ago and the animals that lived in it. The world was very noisy because of all the noisy animals. The noisiest of them all was the butterflies because they only thought about themselves. Eventually they were changed to beautiful, quiet butterflies after a storm.
I think Why Butterflies go by on Silent Wings is a very good book because it has a underlying moral to the story. This moral is something all children should be taught. It is that to be truly beautiful and magnificent you should not envy, boast, or be conceded. This book shows that these traits are not good traits through the pictures, not directly in the writing. The butterflies are brown when they show these traits but after the storm and they rid themselves of these traits they become beautiful, bright butterflies. The pictures in this book contribute to the story because they are busy and make you see how noisy it actually was. The illustrations are watercolor. I also thought the dialogue contributed greatly to the story especially the dialogues of the butterflies because without the author directly saying they are conceded, the reader can still understand that they are.
Using this book in the classroom would work well because it is important for students to learn the moral of the story. I think that it would be fun for students to paint watercolor butterflies when they were not noisy and then when they turn beautiful.