‘Dream of the Butterfly’ Is an Imaginative New Bedtime Adventure for Your Little Ones

Take a Studio Ghibli film, mix one part Wizard of Oz and send it down the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland and you might have something like Lion Forge’s new children’s graphic novel, Dream of the Butterfly. In the spirit of a Hayao Miyazaki film, Dream of the Butterfly is an tale sure to spark the imaginations of children as a little girl named Tutu finds herself lost in a great blizzard, estranged from her family and friends, and finds herself in a strange new place full of talking animals, a spy team of incapably doofy rabbits, and a secret emperor who rules over them all. Tutu finds herself being captured in this strange new village and sent to work in the energy factory where she meets a new friend, a panda, who teaches her how to work and produce energy for the village through hamsters running on wheels because, well, that’s the crazy type of place this is.

Incidentally, it’s also a place where being a little girl is illegal, and everyone around her — from her avian caretaker to the secret rabbit police that spies on her — finds her rather disgusting. It’s clear few have seen a little girl before, let alone wandering the street trying to talk to people. As Tutu struggles to break away from her emperor-mandated job and find her way back home, she looks to anyone she can for help, and finds it through a pleasant black cat who pops up to guide her along her way. But the biggest mystery Tutu must solve is about a mysterious character and the secret behind the the villa…