Hurry and the Monarch

by Antoine O Flatharta (Author) Meilo So (Illustrator)

Hurry and the Monarch
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
An orange Monarch butterfly is on her fall migration from Canada to Mexico. She stops to rest in Texas and makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry. Embedded in this tale are fascinating facts about the amazing 2,000-mile migration and the life cycle of butterflies. Full color.
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Review quotes

"A [Canada-to-Mexico] migrating butterfly provides Hurry, a Texas tortoise, with perspective on the world beyond his garden. 'Maybe one day, you'll break out of that shell, grow wings, and fly away, ' the butterfly remarks to Hurry. 'I doubt it, ' he replies, then contentedly settles down to hibernate. He wakes in the spring to see the same butterfly alight on a milkweed plant depositing an egg, which hatches, grows, and metamorphoses under Hurry's watchful eye. . . . Together with its informative afterword, this is a particularly attractive, affecting introduction to the wonder of species diversity and the elegant continuum of life."—Booklist, Starred
Antoine O Flatharta
Antoine Ó Flatharta's previous children's book, The Prairie Train, won the Western Writers of America Spur Award. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Meilo So's watercolor illustrations have graced a number of children's books about nature, including Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City and The Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom. He lives in the Shetland Islands, Scotland.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385737197
Lexile Measure
590
Guided Reading Level
N
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Publication date
February 10, 2009
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV002240 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Turtles
Library of Congress categories
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