The Monarch's Message

Celebrated Photographers Give Rare View of Monarch Butterfly's Migration

Picture Book for All Ages Tells Story of Resilience

This photographic storybook focuses on the capabilities of a monarch butterfly who embarks on the migration alone. Acclaimed photographers illustrate stopping places along the trail: a desert with pools full of fish, the cloud forest where an ocelot lives, the overwintering colony where monarchs cluster in the firs. The story creates the sensation of flying with the monarch as she navigates mountain ranges from America to Mexico. Each environment reveals an aspect of her resilience. 

The butterfly is fitted with all the senses she needs to reach a precise point amid a thousand volcanoes. In this unique climate she and her companions will survive the winter and save the species. Nature’s story, told in a simple, lucid style, will give children more confidence in their own resourcefulness.