Home Is Calling

By Katherine Pryor, Ellie Peterson (Illustrator)

Monarchs embark on a perilous journey to their ancestral home, facing nature's challenges.

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40 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Experience the epic migration of monarch butterflies as they journey from Canada to Mexico. Facing storms and scarce food, these resilient creatures strive to ensure the survival of their species. Discover how climate change and deforestation threaten their path, and learn simple ways to help. Will they reach their destination against all odds?

From the publisher

Join the monarchs as they embark on a transcontinental journey home in this moving story about 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. Brought to life with illustrations as vivid as the monarch’s iconic orange and black hues, this story invites young readers to experience the monarch’s migration from the butterflies’ point of view as they search for food, huddle together through storms, and tirelessly fly south. Parents and educators alike will find much to love about this poetically written book. The story touches on how climate change and deforestation are impacting monarchs, and kid-friendly back matter provides additional information about the butterflies, including their life cycle, anatomy, and migratory patterns, as well as several simple ways children can help monarch butterflies themselves.

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