Butter Comes from Butterflies by Mat Connolley

The wonderfully mistaken things children once believed

Good Condition - Light creasing to the front cover and minor wear to the corners and edges. Pages are clean and tidy.

Why should the world make perfect sense when you are still working out its rules? Mat Connolley gathers childhood beliefs shared by visitors to his I Used to Believe website, preserving the extraordinary explanations children invent for ordinary things. Misheard words, misunderstood advice and imaginative leaps produce ideas that are both funny and unexpectedly logical on their own terms. Illustrated by Jane Merks, Butter Comes from Butterflies moves through a succession of short recollections that invite readers to remember their own early certainties. The collection celebrates the creativity of a child's view of life, offering warm amusement at the surprising conclusions that can seem entirely reasonable until someone explains otherwise.