Butterfly Dreams is an adult fable about seeing the true beauty and value inside of a person, and the dimensions of love and friendship. Set in the tumbledown streets of a border Mexican village and written in the lyrical style of Spanish surrealism, Butterfly Dreams is an exquisitely crafted story poem of a friendship that forms between a lonely, hardened street boy and an elderly woman, a traditional herbalist. They face various hurdles along the way accompanied by the cloud of butterflies that surround and nurture the old woman. A child of a friend described the Kubabi books as "being slightly mysterious, but it's a happy mysterious". So winds the tale of Butterfly Dreams -- part gritty reality, part fanciful magic. The ending, while no surprise, is deeply satisfying.