from Publishers Weekly, BookLife:

"Resplendent with hope and the brilliance of the natural world"

Breathtaking photographs illuminate the monarchs' migration in The Monarch’s Message, a storybook for all ages by Amy Rebecca Kaufman.

Twenty color photos give rare views of stopping places along the trail: a desert with pools of fish, an ocelot's home in the cloud forest, the overwintering colony where monarchs cluster in the firs.

Readers enter the life of the butterfly as she navigates mountain ranges and deserts to a tiny sanctuary amid a thousand volcanoes. There, in the unique climate under a fir canopy, millions of monarchs will survive the winter and return north to continue the species.

Rich in authentic detail, the story is told with the wonderment of a newly emerged butterfly seeing the world for the first time. Young readers empathize with the monarch through sensory impressions that correspond to their own experience. People of all ages will find parallels to human life in this tale of resilience and purpose.

"[A] beautiful tale...Nature's stunning synergy is on full display here." Publishers Weekly, BookLife review, Aug. 27, 2024

A gift for all ages and seasons

Through December 2025, we'll send two books for the price of one. (One to keep and one to share.) Comes with two beautiful monarch gift cards; free shipping.

Available to teachers and librarians through Titlewave, Follett Content, https://www.titlewave.com/main/classroom. Product 2654WF3

TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS ARE INVITED to request a complimentary copy by emailing the publisher at writings.lit@gmail.com. Perfect-bound books available upon request.

ISBN 978-0-9825715-5-2

Durable softcover, saddlestitched, printed on archival paper for optimal-quality images.

Celebrated photographers capture nature’s grandeur 

The monarchs’ journey is unique in the animal world (Lincoln Brower). This book depicts natural phenomena seldom seen by human eyes.

National Geographic photographer George Grall reveals a biological reserve where prehistoric species thrive in two hundred pools on the desert floor. A double spread shows monarchs in a volcanic landscape, entering their ancestral sanctuary in the Transvolcanic Belt of Mexico. George D. Lepp, named a Canon Legend in 2021, contributes a stunning image of the oyamel fir forest blanketed with monarchs. Lepp was on Brower’s research expedition in 1977, soon after the overwintering colonies were discovered.

Scientific knowledge is imperceptibly woven into a simple, universal tale.

This novelty book stays true to nature's own story to reimagine a drama of exceptional power.

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