The Bad Butterfly
www.BillieBBrown.com
The Bad
Butterfly
By Sally Rippin
Illustrated by Aki Fukuoka
The Bad Butterfly
published in 2010 by
Hardie Grant Egmont
85 High Street
Prahran,Victoria 3181, Australia
www.hardiegrantegmont.com.au
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Text copyright © 2010 Sally Rippin
Illustration copyright © 2010 Aki Fukuoka
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Design and typeset by Stephanie Spartels
Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group
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Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter
One
Billie B Brown has two messy pigtails, two pink ballet slippers and one new tutu. Do you know what the B in Billie B Brown stands for?
You guessed it!
Ballerina.
Today Billie has decided that she is going to be a famous ballerina. That is why she is wearing a tutu.
Do you think she looks nice in her new tutu?
Billie’s best friend is Jack. Billie and Jack live next door to each other. They do everything together. If Billie decides to play soccer, then Jack will play soccer too. If Jack decides to listen to music, then Billie will too.
If Billie decides to make a super-dooper sandwich with banana and honey and sprinkles, Jack will make a sandwich too. But he prefers salami.
Today Billie and Jack are going to ballet class. What’s that? You didn’t think boys could do ballet? Of course they can.
Boys can be very good ballet dancers.
Billie is wearing her new tutu. Jack is wearing his soccer shorts.
Billie and Jack’s new ballet teacher is called Miss Dainty. Billie thinks Miss Dainty is beautiful.
Miss Dainty puts all the girls into one group.
In the group there is a girl called Lola. She is also in Billie’s class at school.
Lola’s tutu has sparkles on it and Billie feels a teensy bit jealous. Billie wishes she had a tutu with sparkles!
‘All right, girls!’ says Miss Dainty.
‘You are all going to be butterflies. When I play the piano I want you to float around the room like beautiful, delicate butterflies.’
Lola flutters her arms up and down. She looks a lot like a delicate butterfly.
‘Lovely, Lola!’ says Miss Dainty.
Billie wants to show Miss Dainty that she can flutter her arms like a butterfly too.
She flaps her arms up and down very fast and spins around.