Hurry and the Monarch
Paperback – Picture Book, February 10, 2009
Random House Children's Books · Paperback · February 10, 2009
When the beautiful orange Monarch on her fall migration route from Canada to Mexico stops to rest at Wichita Falls, Texas, she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry.
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- Who it’s for
- A tender picture-book friendship opens onto the remarkable journey and life cycle of monarch butterflies.
- Themes
- Monarch migration, Butterfly life cycle, Unlikely friendship
- Genres
- Butterflies & Caterpillars, Insects & Spiders
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When the beautiful orange Monarch on her fall migration route from Canada to Mexico stops to rest at Wichita Falls, Texas, she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry. She tells him, "Maybe one day you'll break out of that shell, grow wings, and fly away," and then she is off again with millions of other Monarchs. In the spring, she stops again at Hurry's garden just long enough to lay her eggs and head north to Canada.
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Embedded in this lyrical and tender fictional presentation are the fascinating facts about the amazing 2,000-mile migration and the life cycle of butterflies. An afterword provides additional scientific data.
Wings and Wonder
A tender picture-book friendship opens onto the remarkable journey and life cycle of monarch butterflies.
Come here for
- A gentle story with butterfly science woven in
- The scale of a 2,000-mile migration
Expect
- Lyrical, tender storytelling
- Additional scientific information in an afterword
Where it sits
| Butterflies & Caterpillars | 59% |
|---|---|
| Insects & Spiders | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Bugs & Insects
- Nature & Wildlife
- Travel Adventures
- Authors
- Antoine O Flatharta
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- February 10, 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Monarch migration · Butterfly life cycle · Unlikely friendship
- Reading lane
- Bugs & Insects