The World of the Monarch Butterfly

by Eric S. Grace

Book Overview

Human beings have long been captivated by the striking orange and black dress and the epic migrations of monarch butterflies. The World of the Monarch Butterfly combines a graceful text and stunning... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871569817
• ISBN13: 9780871569813
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books for Children
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent illustrations, informative text.

My wife enjoys this very much, as she is active in breeding and protecting the Monarchs in our area. Some beautiful photography, and interesting and informative.

Amazing!!!!!

I've got a thing for Monarch butterflies so when I saw this book I jumped on getting it. I have a number of other books pertaining to Monarchs but the photographs in here are absolutely moving! There are close-up images of the egg and emerging caterpillar, there are pictures of the sky filled with these orange and black jewels, there are close-ups of chrysallids that fill a page of the book. Its just amazing. But wait, its much more than just a picture book. The text is great too. Each stage of development is covered (with great corresponding photographs, extreme close-ups), and following metamorphosis, there's discussion of the Journey South, the paths of migration, some discussion of tagging, a section on the winter roosts, and a discussion of morach habitats, food predators etc. A really wonderful work, extremely well done!!!