Butterfly Girl

Here’s a meadow bright with golden flowers a-humming, and here’s Butterfly Girl musing that she could pick out that song. Blue bird agrees, and begins the hum. ‘That is our song,’ snaps a bumblebee. ‘Buzz off.’ So Butterfly Girl and Blue hunt for songs elsewhere. But the winding river’s song apparently belongs to frog. Does a deep, dark cave have a song? Scared by a GROWL, howling from the darkness, they run till they reach the sea. Listening to the wild, wet song of the sea, they feel sure the sea won’t mind if Blue sings that song. ‘Don’t even think about it!’ spouts whale. The tale ends with the idea that each of us might have our own song inside us… we just need to find it. The lyrical language and affinity between the two main characters is beautifully matched with colourful, stylised artwork.