Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
by Deborah Hopkinson (Author) Meilo So (Illustrator)
Butterflies Belong Here is a powerful story of everyday activism and hope.
In this moving story of community conservation, a girl finds a home in a new place and a way to help other small travelers.
This book is about the real change children can make in conservation and advocacy--in this case, focusing on beautiful monarch butterflies.
- From Deborah Hopkinson and Meilo So, the acclaimed team behind Follow the Moon Home
- An empowering, classroom-ready read
- The protagonist is a girl whose family has recently immigrated to the United States.
I know what to look for: large black-and-orange wings with a border of small white specks, flitting from flower to flower, sipping nectar. But though I looked hard, I couldn't find even one. I wondered if monarch butterflies belonged here. I wondered if I did, too.
Butterflies Belong Here is proof that even the smallest of us are capable of amazing transformations.
- Equal parts educational and heartwarming, this makes a great gift for parents and grandparents, as well as librarians, science teachers, and educators.
- Those interested in beautiful butterflies and everyday activism will find this lovely book both motivating and inspiring.
- Perfect for children ages 5 to 8 years old
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Following an earlier, similarly structured collaboration by this team (Follow the Moon Home) about a child gaining self-assurance while working on an environmental project, Hopkinson and So introduce a brown-skinned girl whose confidence grows as she organizes her class to start a milkweed garden for migrating monarchs. "That's me in the back," the girl says, holding up her class picture; "I was a little like a caterpillar then: / quiet and almost invisible." A librarian gives her illustrated books about monarchs whose imagined pages interleave with the girl's own story, and the butterflies' migration path mirrors her own ("I wondered if monarch butterflies belonged here. Sometimes I wondered if we did, too"). A research poster she makes about monarchs inspires her classmates, and--with input from experts, a budget, and presentations to the school and beyond--a school monarch way station takes shape. So's delicate mixed-media drawings capture the girl's classmates and portrays the protagonist as she journeys from lonely newcomer to poised leader. An author's note and bibliography tell readers how to make their own gardens. Ages 5-8. Author's agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. Illustrator's agent: Sally Heflin, Heflinreps. (Aug.)
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JUV002300 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Butterflies, Moths & Caterpillars
Immigrants
Picture books
Butterflies
Monarch butterfly
Immigrant children
Butterfly gardening
Butterfly gardens
