Janice McLaughlin

Diana the Diaphanous Dancing Dragonfly Janice McLaughlin

A very colorful -- rhyming, teaching, little storybook to encourage children to want to learn. It has a companion coloring/activity book that is sold separately. Even before the dinosaurs walked the Earth, dragonflies took to the air. Dragonfly's wings are transparent. Light reflecting off of the crystal colors of the wings causes the illusion of the mirage of standing still. They can also move each of their four wings independently. In addition to flapping each wing up and down, they can rotate their wings forward and back. That means, Dragonflies can move straight up or down, fly backwards, stop and hover, and make hairpin turns, at full speed or in slow motion. The flight of the dragonfly is so special that it has inspired engineers who dream of making robots/drones that fly like dragonflies.