Doreena Butterfly

Lyric and sweetly poetic, Doreena Butterfly by Southern poet and short fiction writer Virginia B. Minnix is a delightful blend of lesson and lullaby. With a rapt and sonorous tone throughout, this children's book is written for beginning readers, with pictures to engage pre-readers as well. Doreena is a wee little butterfly who does not understand why her older brother, Johnny, gets to stay up later than she, while she is put to bed early every night. Prodded by Doreena's relentless insistence that when she is grown she will 'never, never' go to bed until she wants to, her mother lets her stay up all night giving her a taste of life without slumber. Doreena listens to the nightingales' song, but come morning she nearly falls asleep in a marigold and begins to learn just how important it is to have a full night's rest.