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Et...
Non, non non !
Ne touche pas le papillon.
Sinon, il va s'envoler
et...
Ce papillon va faire tomber un pétale de fleur
et...
Ce pétale de fleur coupera le fil d'une araignée,
et...
Que va-t-il se passer après ?
Ne touche pas le papillon.
Sinon, il va s'envoler
et...
Ce papillon va faire tomber un pétale de fleur
et...
Ce pétale de fleur coupera le fil d'une araignée,
et...
Que va-t-il se passer après ?
32 pages, Paperback
Published September 5, 2018
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January 6, 2024
The butterfly effect meets "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". Obviously a dropping flower petal will somehow result in a collision with a traveling circus. Clearly.
M really liked this one. Her favorite page was the dung beetle, because, as she loved to tell me, "it's pushing a ball of poop". This led to us researching dung beetles and learning that they are hatched in dung balls, so they have a first meal after they are born. Perhaps don't read this book with a child if you don't desire to have conversations about dung beetles.
M really liked this one. Her favorite page was the dung beetle, because, as she loved to tell me, "it's pushing a ball of poop". This led to us researching dung beetles and learning that they are hatched in dung balls, so they have a first meal after they are born. Perhaps don't read this book with a child if you don't desire to have conversations about dung beetles.
May 30, 2022
The "butterfly effect" amusingly presented in this cautionary tale orginally published in France.
September 18, 2022
Looking for a way to talk about chaos theory with your child? Maybe laugh (inside) at the irony? This may be the book for you.
A circle tale, but would you consider this a cummulative-replacement tale? That's a story where the action is cumulative, but the results are replaced instead of stacked. Children's literature is so full of story elements that you could only find in a picture book.
A circle tale, but would you consider this a cummulative-replacement tale? That's a story where the action is cumulative, but the results are replaced instead of stacked. Children's literature is so full of story elements that you could only find in a picture book.
August 6, 2023
Ik vond deze amusant. Gewoon al omdat het helemaal past bij de steeds verder bouwende, opjagende, nerveuze, absurde denkstijl van een kleuter. Goed surreëel. En met een grappige noot op het einde zodat je zeker al glimlachend afsluit.
February 18, 2022
Fun and whimsical but a good story for natural consequences in nature. It would also be fun to use an an introduction to writing stories. Students could write their own "and" stories.
November 30, 2021
A light-hearted cautionary tale to discourage a young girl for touching a butterfly as a series of 'what if' unexpected events foretold. Bold bright illustrations of the objects to be impacted on each page are artfully place on stark white space to add effect and to encourage increasingly outrageous predictions of the what might happen on the next page. A clever twist at the end has the young girl not touching the butterfly but her actions lead to the same disastrous result.
With shades of chaos theory underpinning the story line this is a story to delight young readers and would be a terrific stimulus for some creative story writing online the same vein
With shades of chaos theory underpinning the story line this is a story to delight young readers and would be a terrific stimulus for some creative story writing online the same vein
January 12, 2022
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AND... is a picture book that invites children to imagine the cascading consequences of a decision. A young child is reaching out to touch a butterfly. The mother warns them that if they touch the butterfly, it will fly away and make a petal from the flower fall, and that will land on a dung beetle, making them lose their ball of dung, which will fall into a river, and so on. It escalates until a whole bunch of things are rolling down the hill, taking everything with them including houses and buildings.
What I loved: This was quite an imaginative picture book that invites children to think of consequences to their actions and the many things that can happen as a result of each decision. The bright colors along with focused illustrations of each object are very attention-grabbing. With relatively few words on each page, this is a book that could move very fast, which works well for young readers.
What left me wanting more: I found the story theme a bit challenging in that it seems to be catastrophizing, particularly about something that would be out of a child's control (eventually, the butterfly would fly away and may cause that same issue?), particularly since they make a different decision, which also leads to the same consequence. This may be a difficult read for sensitive or anxious children, unless they understand also the absurdity of it and that small things they do would not lead to downstream total destruction. It may just need some additional discussion.
Final verdict: An imaginative story of consequences, AND... invites children to think of downstream events resulting from their decisions.
Please note that I received a review copy. All opinions are my own.
AND... is a picture book that invites children to imagine the cascading consequences of a decision. A young child is reaching out to touch a butterfly. The mother warns them that if they touch the butterfly, it will fly away and make a petal from the flower fall, and that will land on a dung beetle, making them lose their ball of dung, which will fall into a river, and so on. It escalates until a whole bunch of things are rolling down the hill, taking everything with them including houses and buildings.
What I loved: This was quite an imaginative picture book that invites children to think of consequences to their actions and the many things that can happen as a result of each decision. The bright colors along with focused illustrations of each object are very attention-grabbing. With relatively few words on each page, this is a book that could move very fast, which works well for young readers.
What left me wanting more: I found the story theme a bit challenging in that it seems to be catastrophizing, particularly about something that would be out of a child's control (eventually, the butterfly would fly away and may cause that same issue?), particularly since they make a different decision, which also leads to the same consequence. This may be a difficult read for sensitive or anxious children, unless they understand also the absurdity of it and that small things they do would not lead to downstream total destruction. It may just need some additional discussion.
Final verdict: An imaginative story of consequences, AND... invites children to think of downstream events resulting from their decisions.
Please note that I received a review copy. All opinions are my own.
May 26, 2020
Το "Και μετά..." αποτελεί μια ευφυέαστατη ιστορία για τις ευθύνες και τις συνέπειες των πράξεών μας. Με αφορμή το ενδεχόμενο ένα παιδάκι να αγγίξει μια πεταλούδα, ο συγγραφέας αναφέρει όλα αυτά που επρόκειτο να ακολουθήσουν ως άμεση συνέπεια αυτού. Μέσα από την ιστορία του, ο Φιλίπ Ζαλμπέρ ταξιδεύει τον μικρό αναγνώστη του βιβλίου σε ποτάμια, υπόγειες στοές, κατηφόρες, ανηφόρες, και πολλές βουνοκορφές κάνοντας την αφήγηση διασκεδαστική! Η όμορφη εικονογράφηση του βιβλίου με τα μεγάλα σχήματα και η επιλογή χρωμάτων όπως το κίτρινο, το κόκκινο και το μπλε σίγουρα τραβούν σίγουρα την προσοχή του παιδιού. Ταυτοχρόνως, η τύπωση προτάσεων πάνω σε καμπύλες κάνει την "εικόνα" του βιβλίου ακόμη πιο παιχνιδιάρικη και ψυχαγωγική! Το παιδί, μαθαίνει ότι ακόμη και μέσα από μικρές πράξεις μπορούν να συμβούν μεγάλα πράγματα και οι συνέπειες πολλές φορές μπορεί να είναι καταστροφικές. Το βιβλίο κλείνει με μια υπέροχη πράξη αγάπης και τρυφερότητας μεταξύ παιδιού και γονέα. Τέλος, η μετάφραση της Πετρούλας Γαβριηλίδου θεωρώ πως είναι εξαιρετική καθώς κατάφερε να δημιουργήσει ομοιοκαταληξία σε ένα όμορφο ξένο παιδικό βιβλίο χρησιμοποιώντας τις κατάλληλες λέξεις!
Είμαι σίγουρη ότι αυτό το βιβλίο θα κάνει τα παιδιά σας να γελάσουν δυνατά αλλά και να μάθουν πως κάθε μας πράξη έχει συνέπειες.
Είμαι σίγουρη ότι αυτό το βιβλίο θα κάνει τα παιδιά σας να γελάσουν δυνατά αλλά και να μάθουν πως κάθε μας πράξη έχει συνέπειες.
April 27, 2022
A child is warned not to touch a butterfly because a catastrophic sequence of events could unfold if the butterfly makes a flower petal fall on a dung beetle, whose ball of dung rolls onto the dam and causes an overflow of water to flood a mole's underground home, forcing the mole to escape his home by biting the butt of a bear who was sitting on the entrance. The bear runs haywire, causing damage on a massive scale! All because of one little butterfly.
This book is really funny and I loved the cute illustrations! Each page is colorful with energetic artwork. It really brings the comedy to life in the book!
The plot twists are so wild and weird. You never know what crazy thing is going to happen next.
This book will have your little readers laughing and giggling for sure!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.
This book is really funny and I loved the cute illustrations! Each page is colorful with energetic artwork. It really brings the comedy to life in the book!
The plot twists are so wild and weird. You never know what crazy thing is going to happen next.
This book will have your little readers laughing and giggling for sure!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.
November 12, 2021
Originally published in France, this picture book effectively depicts the consequences of even the smallest actions. As a small child reaches out to touch a butterfly drinking nectar from a blossom, an adult's voice stops her by describing the series of events that will occur as the result of disturbing that creature. The events are described on separate pages, held together by the conjunction "and." While most of them make sense, at a certain point, everything becomes absurd and beyond credibility. The child quickly agrees not to leave that butterfly alone but not the flower. The colorful illustrations fill each page with motion, while the word "and" appears in large font size on the bottom of the right-hand pages. This is clearly a cautionary tale but one told with great humor and imagination.
October 24, 2022
A bright and colorful way to introduce kids to the butterfly effect. A mom cautions her daughter not to touch a butterfly on a flower, or she could set off a series of increasingly disastrous events that ends with a landslide of wild animals, rocks, trees, houses, and whatever else is in its path. The child promises not to touch the butterfly, but she picks the flower for her mother and seems to set off the catastrophes anyway (because children basically ARE the embodiment of chaos theory, amiright?). The illustrations are fun and vibrant, and the consequences of touching the butterfly become quite wild, though I do wish they didn't result in such a dangerous situation - seriously, I'm worried about those animals in the landslide! Still, this would be a fun read-aloud, as the reader can get ever more dramatic with the reading.
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January 25, 2022If catastrophizing were a children's picture book...
I do understand that the intention here is to be playful and imaginative. And yet the book is billed as a "cautionary tale." Caution for what, though? The initial act is touching a butterfly, which then literally produces a butterfly effect of worse and worse things happening. So the lesson is: "Kid: be afraid to do anything, because your actions have terrible consequences."
I wanted to enjoy this but I'm having trouble seeing how this has any positive message for children.
***Note: I was given a review copy of this book via the publisher. Opinions are my own.
I do understand that the intention here is to be playful and imaginative. And yet the book is billed as a "cautionary tale." Caution for what, though? The initial act is touching a butterfly, which then literally produces a butterfly effect of worse and worse things happening. So the lesson is: "Kid: be afraid to do anything, because your actions have terrible consequences."
I wanted to enjoy this but I'm having trouble seeing how this has any positive message for children.
***Note: I was given a review copy of this book via the publisher. Opinions are my own.
January 19, 2026
Originally published in French, and then translated into English and published in Australia. Illustrations have bold colors and lots of action. The book includes topics that appeal to kids, such as dung beetles, circuses, and total chaos. Last illustration lets kids draw conclusions even if they can't read yet.
September 20, 2024
A fun book that explores the idea of The Butterfly Effect. Even my youngest readers enjoyed reading this then making up their own stories of simple things that lead to unexpected actions. The illustrations are a lot of fun.
December 14, 2021
Cute cause-effect story. Short enough for storytime.
December 15, 2021
There are far-reaching consequences to a small action.
January 1, 2022
Chaos theory for children
March 30, 2022
Over the top unintended consequences. If a boy touches a butterfly the domino effect will lead to disaster…
April 5, 2022
A fun cumulative story with a perfect ending
August 1, 2022
A dramatic and fun story about how a small action can lead to catastrophic events. Very tongue-in-cheek.
August 18, 2022
3.5 stars
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September 21, 2021Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
June 4, 2025
weird, too old for young groups. Adults thought it was funny.
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