Review: Why Is She Different?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
WARNING SPOILER ALERT WARNING SPOILER ALERT WARNING SPOILER ALERT WARNING SPOILER ALERTETA:  I apologize, but in order to explain some of the issues I had with the book, I gave away the ending.  Please do not read further if spoilers bother you.This is a cute 6 page, (11 verses of normally 4 lines each) poetry story about how a young winged insect learns that she is a moth and not a butterfly.  I feel that the number of words per page ratio is a bit high for the lower ages of the target audience. (as per description page 2-5 year olds)The poetry was fairly easy to recite on the first time, although in several places the rhythm was uneven, particularly when Luna is conversing with the owl."Hello Mr. Owl," she said to the bird."Hello there Miss Moth."Miss Moth? That's absurd "You've got me confused with another," she sighed"For I'm not a moth I'm a green butterfly."The illustrations are similar to the cover and take up about 1/2 of a page.  While I find the illustrations bright and cheery, with each page being fairly different,they are also very cut and paste like.  For instance on the page with all of the butterflies at first glance they look different.  However, it is there colors that are different, the patterns on the butterflies are the same.  The clouds are all the same shape no matter which page. The trees were generic looking.I had some issues with the story that others may not find.  On one line the poet says Luna is loved most by her mother.  If Luna has a mother she would be a moth, why wouldn't Luna know that she is a moth?  I realize this is nitpicking, but the poet several times refers to the butterflies as Luna's brothers, sisters, kin.  (I read up on moths.  As this is a book targeting young children I won't elaborate on the fact that moths never meet their mothers and being a moth is the adult stage of the life cycle of this insect).The book is cute, but I still wouldn't recommend it.