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Yellow Butterfly by Oleksandr Shatokhin
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This is a wordless book. The Ukrainian author wrote this shortly after Russian invaded the country. We see a girl behind barbed wire afraid until she see a yellow butterfly, I assume this is hope. The butterfly seems to spread everywhere and change things.

I do love a wordless story and this one is probably the most abstract wordless story I have seen. I think the yellow butterfly is that hope spreading.

The artwork is simple. They use black, white and yellow for most of the book and toward the end, they add blue. It looks to be charcoal or chalk

This is a great starter to talk about violence in our world and what some children have to live through.
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Reading Progress

February 25, 2025 – Started Reading
February 25, 2025 – Shelved
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: 2023
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: award-various
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: bage-children
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: genre-beginner
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: genre-drama-tragedy
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: genre-war
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: genre-wordless
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: sub-flying
February 25, 2025 – Shelved as: x-surreal
February 25, 2025 – Finished Reading

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Manybooks Wonder if this book will now end up routinely being banned in much of the USA since Trump loves Putin so much, sigh.


Calista Manybooks wrote: "Wonder if this book will now end up routinely being banned in much of the USA since Trump loves Putin so much, sigh."

Possibly. How did we end up the axis of evil. I don't get it.


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