This is a children's book (probably best for ages 3-8) with gorgeous drawings as illustrations. The story itself is fun and whimsical, while also touching on garden life and friendship/community. The anthropomorphic butterfly demonstrates a sense of community in enjoying helping out her garden friends with their chores/activities while they're away, thus demonstrating to young readers the value in helping each other and what it means to be part of a community.

Many of the chores demonstrate actual garden critters' jobs (such as ladybirds keeping aphids off roses, and bees pollinating flowers), which is a fun way to introduce young readers to such concepts.

The story is written in rhyming prose (or, in a handful of cases, near-rhymes) which adds a musical lilt when reading the story to little ones.

It's comprised of 20 pages of rhymes (each with its own picture), so younger readers - say age 3 - may need a few sittings get through the whole thing depending on their attention span, but children at more like age 8 should enjoy the story in one go.

As a teacher I would love to read this with any of my preschool through grade 2 classes.

And there's endless time and delight wanted for perusing the drawings, which are - in my opinion - the highlight of this beautiful book.