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Title
Gotta Go! Gotta Go!
Author Sam Swope
Release Year 2000
Reviewed by Meridith Herman
Review Date 2008
Type of Book Fiction
Death of
 
Type of Death  
Target Age Young Children (5-8)



Summary

A young butterfly knows nothing more but to continue her life cycle. She is born a little bug and then turns into a butterfly that flies to Mexico and mates only to return back home and lay her eggs to continue the cycle once again.



Quotes

"At last she came to a meadow. She fluttered for awhile, looking for the one leaf that would do, and, landing lightly, laid the first of many eggs. It was the reason for everything."


General Themes

Change, Life Cycle (Nature)



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