Anika and Her New Body is a wonderful story about a Grandmothers talk with her granddaughter about the changes in her body as they cook breakfast together. Anika wants to have a body like her mother and grandmother and is considering the changes her body will undergo when she sees a butterfly and remembers the story of the caterpillar and the butterfly. She is comforted in knowing that she can be graceful like her mama grandma and the butterfly.