Fireflies (Reading Rainbow)
Fireflies (Reading Rainbow)
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Publisher: Aladdin
Publication year: 1986
ISBN: 0689710550
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Fireflies is Julie Brinckloe's "reflects a classic theme in children's literature—the need to set something free in order to keep it." (The Horn Book) A young boy is proud of having caught a jar full of fireflies, which seems to him like owning a piece of moonlight, but as the light begins to dim he realizes he must set the insects free or they will die.