Isabel's House of Butterflies, Hc

by Tony Johnston

Book Overview

Outside her home in Michoac n, Mexico, grows eight-year-old Isabel's greatest treasure: an oyamel tree. Every autumn, a miracle happens-for Isabel's tree is the wintering place for thousands upon... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871564092
• ISBN13: 9780871564092
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books for Children
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A poignant story of difficult real-life choices

The captivating full-page color artwork by Susan Guevara fairly leaps from the pages of Tony Johnston's Isabel's House Of Butterflies, a stunning picture book about a Mexican family with a young daughter, and the tree on their land that is a wintering place for thousands of monarch butterflies that migrate from the north. When they come, the tree becomes La casa de las mariposas - the house of the butterflies. But the family is very poor, and may need to cut down the tree to sell its wood to survive. A poignant story of difficult real-life choices and wonder for natural miracles, Isabel's House Of Butterflies would make a welcome addition to any school or community library collection.