Butterfly wakes up while Porcupine is having breakfast, and Porcupine tries to explain what it means to be nocturnal and Butterfly considers the advantages of a nighttime life while trying to get back to sleep.

Dazzle the butterfly isn't sure if she is fast enough to sign up for any of the events on Sports Day, but when Mallow, the organizer of the races, has to drop out of her relay race, Dazzle agrees to take her place.

When they start a unit on butterflies Ms. Frizzle accidentally turns all the kids in her class into butterflies.

In ancient China, a man falls asleep beneath a willow tree and dreams he is a butterfly. Based on the stories of the Chou Dynasty Taoist philosopher, Zhuangzi.

Marion volunteers at the Santa Vista Arboretum butterfly release and helps her younger sister Gabby overcome her fear of bugs so she can also attend the event.

A caterpillar learns to be patient while trying to metamorphosize.

Walking the streets of London, capturing whatever catches his eye, Tom--after a negative develops, revealing something unseen by the eye--is drawn further into a hidden war, forcing him to piece fragments of the truth to fight his own battle: both for the woman he loves, and for himself.

A butterfly tries to help a lost young monkey find its mother in the jungle, meeting many different animals along the way.

Skipper, Dazzle, and their friends plan to spend the day flitting about the forest. But an unexpected storm spells trouble for the butterflies --- especially when they discover a cocoon about to hatch. Can Skipper help this new butterfly weather the storm? Real butterfly facts included at the end of the book!

Masterpiece for Bess: Flattered at first that all the other fairies and sparrow men want her to paint their portraits, Bess soon begins to feel overwhelmed and tries to find a way to return to the kind of painting she really wants to do. Prilla and the butterfly lie: After lying to spare a friend's feelings, Prilla, a mainland-visiting, clapping-talent fairy, finds herself spending a day as a butterfly herder, while strange things keep happening...