POV: The Life of a Butterfly

by Amir Morris, Jeffrey Moore-Starks, Jr., Tahira Gaddy, and Winter Smith

Hellooooooo, my name is Falisha and I’m a pollinator. Can you guess what I am? 

You’re right, I’m a butterfly! 

A spring azure butterfly. My wings are bright blue with a white outline and polka-dots, and my body is black. 

I love to drink nectar, so I found this dandelion and drank that nectar up. It was honey candy flavored.

I was soooo full I could barely move, but then I heard some kids.

I love butterfly ball. I saw these high school kids playing butterfly ball so I flew by and I hit that net away. And the net fell down. Score! Of course I won the game, even if it was only one point.

THE END. (Sike!) 

PSSSST: Hey, you wanna know a secret about pollinators? When they move from flower to flower, the pollen gets stuck to them and then, when they go to another flower, the pollen comes off and makes new seeds. (I love lemon and orange seeds.)

PSSSST: Here is another secret. My anime friends and I pollinate the ponderosa lemon trees inside of the Belle Isle Conservatory. And they taste super duper sour.

One day, this very special thing happened to me and my anime friends. Atondria, Zack, Tom, and Goju, and I were flying around . . . very fast, because we’re the fastest.

We smelled water and yummy chicken. We could hear seagulls and saw people walking.

We flew over to Belle Isle Beach.
We began looking for flowers. (White flowers are my favorite.) We wanted some nectar that tasted like sweet juice and honey. We began to fly around and look for the brightest flowers. We found a flower that was bright blue. (Just like me!)

We drank it all up. It tasted like matcha cupcakes! Yum.

Afterward, we felt so good and energized!

So we played some more butterfly ball, and some basketball, and some soccer!

THE END (for real this time).