When surrounded by thousands of butterflies, eleven-year-old John becomes transformed into one of them and finds his entire life altered because of this experience.
Follows the transformational stories of four women inspired by the annual migration of monarch butterflies, including Luz, who returns to her late grandmother's Mexican village and unexpectedly encounters the mother she had believed dead.
Simple text and photographs depict the life cycle and metamorphosis of a monarch butterfly, from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to emerging butterfly. Includes crafts and related activities.
Minna, Pip, Mom, and Dad choose a blue-sky day to visit the Butterfly Place where they observe all the stages in a butterfly's life, and get to see monarch butterflies in action.