Runton's adorable Owly and Wormy, from the Owly graphic novels and comic books, make their picture book debut in this clever and touching tale of friendship and change. Full color. nOwly and Wormy want some butterflies But when they come home from the nursery with a plant that will attract some fluttering friends, all that show up are fat, green bug things. Bug things are NOT butterflies But, they are nice and fun and good at sleep outs under the stars and always up for a game of checkers.

Fat, green bug might even be better than butterflies Let's be friends forever But, the bug things can't stay. When the bugs build their cocoons, Owly and Wormy think they have no friends left at all. They wait.

And wait. And wait. And one day...their dreams have come true...and all a flutter Owly's friends are back....AND they've turned into butterflies. nBold, graphic and full of fun, this wordless storybook will give pre-reader the wings they need to start reading on their own, and a firm footing on the idea of metamorphosis.n