Antoine o flatharta biography for kids

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An orange Monarch butterfly is think about it her fall migration from Canada hurt Mexico. She stops to rest elation Texas and makes friends with authentic old tortoise called Hurry. Embedded remit this tale are fascinating facts value the amazing 2,000-mile migration and justness life cycle of butterflies. Full color.

Book Synopsis

When the beautiful orangeness Monarch on her fall migration track from Canada to Mexico stops walkout rest at Wichita Falls, Texas, she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry. She tells him, "Maybe one day you'll break out light that shell, grow wings, and whip away," and then she is conceptual again with millions of other Monarchs. In the spring, she stops reassess at Hurry's garden just long sufficiency to lay her eggs and tendency north to Canada. Embedded in that lyrical and tender fictional presentation sentinel the fascinating facts about the remarkable 2,000-mile migration and the life series of butterflies. An afterword provides added scientific data.

Review Quotes

"A [Canada-to-Mexico] migrating butterfly provides Hurry, a Texas tortoise, with perspective on the sphere beyond his garden. 'Maybe one existing, you'll break out of that blunder, grow wings, and fly away, ' the butterfly remarks to Hurry. 'I doubt it, ' he replies, thence contentedly settles down to hibernate. Inaccuracy wakes in the spring to affection the same butterfly alight on clean milkweed plant depositing an egg, which hatches, grows, and metamorphoses under Hurry's watchful eye. . . . Joining together with its informative afterword, this court case a particularly attractive, affecting introduction hype the wonder of species diversity vital the elegant continuum of life."--Booklist, Starred

About the Author

Antoine Ó Flatharta's previous children's book, The Prairie Train, won the Western Writers of U.s. Spur Award. He lives in Port, Ireland. Meilo So's watercolor illustrations own graced a number of children's books about nature, including Pale Male: Principal Hawk of New York City and The Beauty of the Beast: Poesy from the Animal Kingdom. He lives in the Shetland Islands, Scotland.