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Monarch Books to Learn about the Species!
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items Have you ever wanted to learn more about monarchs, but were not 100% sure where to go or what books might be a good start? This list has a range of amazing books for readers of all ages and genre preferences to connect with this amazing species. I wi...
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Childrens
Below are a range of children's books for a variety of ages that center around the monarch butterfly, its migration, as well as connecting kids back to themes of community, connection, language and more!
Señorita Mariposa is a bilingual children's book by musician Mister G (Ben Gundersheimer) and illustrated by Marcos Almada Rivero, telling the story of a monarch butterfly's epic migration from Canada to Mexico. The book features a rhyming, bilingual...
Señorita Mariposa (Bilingual Eng-Spa)
Monarchs are a favorite and familiar North American butterfly, and their incredible annual migration has captured the popular imagination for generations. As populations of monarchs decline dramatically due to habitat loss and climate change, interes...
Monarch Butterflies: Explore the Life Journey of One ...
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, ...
Hurry and the Monarch by O Flatharta
Monarch Come Play with Me, by Ba Rea, uses large, detailed illustrations and the inquiries of a young girl to present a monarch caterpillar’s metamorphosis from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis to butterfly for children between the ages of 3 and...
Monarch! Come Play with Me
Mr. McGinty and his dog Sophie love checking in on the monarch caterpillars and butterflies on their summer walks. But one day Mr. McGinty is shocked to find that all the milkweed in town has been mowed down! And monarch caterpillars, he explains, ca...
Mr. McGinty's Monarchs
Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at middle grade and young adult readers. These books help readers learn about the world in which they li...
The Monarch Effect: Surviving Poison, Predators, and People|Hardcover
Every year, monarch butterflies begin a lengthy migration across North America in search of warmer temperatures. The butterflies travel 3,000 miles across open fields, forests, lakes and streams, and mountains, and as they fly, people across the coun...
Look to the Skies: Magical Monarch Migration
As the sun dawns in Canada, a flutter of monarch butterflies take flight, ready to begin their months-long journey to their ancestral home in Mexico. The migration will not be easy, but it is necessary for the next generation of monarchs to be born. ...
Home Is Calling: The Journey of the Monarch Butterfly
Trees for the Monarchs/Árboles para las Mariposas Monarca is a story about a farm in Michoacán, Mexico that grows trees that will be replanted in the Monarch butterfly mountain sanctuaries. Napo, a cat who lives on the farm, tells the story in Englis...
Trees for the Monarch Butterflies/Árboles para las Mariposas Monarca
Focusing on the migration journey of one specific monarch butterfly, When Butterflies Cross the Sky engages readers with a story-like narrative while subtly teaching the role of migration in the butterfly's life cycle. Includes a "fast facts" page, a...
When Butterflies Cross the Sky: The Monarch Butterfly Migration|Paperback
Monarch butterflies make long migrations. These orange and black butterflies can travel thousands of miles in one trip! But monarchs face many threats. Leveled text and vibrant photos bring the butterflies to life on the page in this title for young ...
Monarch Butterflies
The first autumn frost has fallen in the Meadow where Minnie, a tiny, mis-happened monarch butterfly, and her kaleidoscope are preparing for the great migration south, to the Butterfly Forest. But on the day of the departure, Minnie, distracted wit h...
The Misadventures of Minnie the Monarch: Journey to the Butterfly Forest
Help save the monarch butterfly! Backyard Butterfly Garden is the ultimate educational guide for young gardeners and butterfly enthusiasts who want to make a difference. Learn how to plant your very own monarch waystation garden and support the incre...
Backyard Butterfly Garden: A Kids Guide to Monarch Waystations
Maddie Mulligan is a bully who hates butterflies. Sage is a monarch butterfly who refuses to migrate. Children who read this book will discover that bullies and butterflies can change. They will also learn in a fun way about monarch migration, the bu...
Maddie Mulligan and the Monarch Butterfly
I don't know much, but I know what I know. I gotta go! I gotta go! I gotta go to Mexico!" The creepy-crawly bug doesn't know why she does what she does. She only knows she has to do it. But making the journey seems impossible for the slow-moving crit...
Gotta Go! Gotta Go!: A Picture Book
Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the mon...
A Flicker of Hope: A Story of Migration
One late afternoon in early September, Jilly sees something unusual. It looks like it's raining black pepper from a clear blue sky. Then the black rain becomes a wispy mist. And then a shimmering orange cloud. What can it be? Jilly and Mom set out to...
Butterfly Tree
Millions of orange-and-black monarch butterflies, exhausted after their long migration from the USA and Canada, are resting in the oyamel trees in the heart of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico. As tween twin sisters Sydney and Sierra explore this...
Make Way For Monarchs
Adults
Below is a range of fantastic resources and stories for teens and adults to learn more about monarch butterflies, researchers (like me!) who work with them, and how to help these amazing butterflies bounce back.
Monarch butterflies are among the most popular insect species in the world and are an icon for conservation groups and environmental education programs. Monarch caterpillars and adults are easily recognizable as welcome visitors to gardens in North A...
Monarchs in a Changing World: Biology & Conservation
The knowledge of citizen scientists, biologists, and naturalists informs this book's coverage of every aspect of the monarch butterfly's life cycle (breeding, migration, and overwintering) from the perspective of every established monarch population ...
The Monarch Butterfly: Biology & Conservation
In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey. We’re beside her as she navigates unmapped roads in foreign countries, checks roadside milkweed for monarch eggs, a...
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration|Hardcover
Compelled by deep instinct and the curious mind of a retired nurse, scientist, midwife, and nascent naturalist, the author retrieves a too-late-to-migrate monarch caterpillar from a December ice storm. She decides to learn all she can to care for the...
A Monarch in Winter: Biography of a Butterfly|Hardcover
In Four Wings and a Prayer, Sue Halpern sets off on an adventure to delve into the secrets behind this extraordinary phenomenon. She visits scientists and butterfly lovers across the country, offering a keenly observed portrait of the monarchs’ migra...
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly|Paperback
The monarch butterfly is our best-known and best-loved insect, and its annual migration over thousands of miles is an extraordinary natural phenomenon. Robert Michael Pyle, "one of America's finest natural history writers" (Sue Hubbell), set out late...
Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths...
Flight Behavior
In The Amazing Monarch, author and photographer Windle Turley chronicles the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Replete with page after page of full-color photographs, the book shows the monarch's rarely captured destination wintering grounds. The ...
The Amazing Monarch: The Secret Windering Grounds of an Endangered Butterfly|eBook
The plight of the monarch butterfly has captured public attention and sparked widespread interest in helping to save their dwindling populations. In this in-depth portrait of the monarch butterfly—covering its life cycle, its remarkable relationship ...
100 Plants to Feed the Monarch: Create a Healthy Habitat to Sustain North America's Most Beloved Butterfly
Coupled with years of research and knowledge gained from experts in the field, this accessible “butterfly biography” explores the ancient partnership between these special creatures and humans, and why they continue to fascinate us today. “Informativ...
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
The Last Monarch Butterfly provides a thorough and essential overview of these delightful creatures and helps readers to understand their plight. The book documents the monarch's life cycle to provide a clear understanding of its natural condition in...
The Last Monarch Butterfly by Phil Schappert
The monarch butterfly is more than just a beautiful insect; it’s a miracle of nature. From its tiny beginnings on milkweed leaves to its astonishing 3,000-mile migration across North America, the monarch’s story is one of resilience, transformation, ...
The Monarch Butterfly: Crisis & Solutions
Workbooks
Below are resources for educators and parents, as well as those hoping to learn species ID, to connect k-12 curriculum to the monarchs!
Milkweed Monarchs and More, A Field Guide to the Invertebrate Community in the Milkweed Patch, is a fully updated, small, field-work friendly version of the popular field guide. This book features: over 300 full-color photos; entries on insects and s... color coded symbols indicating the animals roles in the milkweed community; an overview of insect and arachnid body structures; explanations of terms and concepts useful for organizing and sharing observations; an overview of unique features of the m...
Milkweed, Monarchs & More: Field Guide
The Monarchs and More curriculum takes an inquiry-based approach to exploring science and the scientific process. The scientific process involves making observations, asking questions, and testing hypotheses. Inquiry-based learning encourages student...
Monarchs and More: Arthropod Curriculum
oung Fred Urquhart was fascinated by insects, especially his favorite, the monarchbutterfly. He wondered where monarchs spent the winter. No one knew. After he became an entomologist (bug scientist),Fred and his wife, Norah,tagged hundreds of butterf...
The Mystery of the Monarchs: How Kids, Teachers, and Butterfly Fans Helped Fred and Norah Urquhart Track the Great Monarch Migration
Get ready to embark on an incredible journey with the Monarch butterfly! Butterfly Coloring Book: Color the Monarch Migration Through North America invites you to follow these amazing creatures as they travel thousands of miles, passing through iconi...
Butterfly Coloring Book: Monarch Migration