Butterfly Grandma: Monarchs!

by Mary Ann Falter, Emma and Genevieve Falter (Illustrator)

Overview

Butterfly Grandma: Monarchs!  narrates a delightful, whimsical conversation in rhyming verse, between Grandma and grandchild in a quest to attract monarch butterflies to their yard!

The story includes the Monarch butterfly lifecycle and the names and pictures of nectar and host plants.  The author's grandchildren contributed most of the illustrations in this children's book, including the cover.  

The new second edition uses this summer's photographs taken by the author in her own butterfly garden. The life cycle and migration of the monarchs is explained.  A list of seasonal shrubs and plants to attract butterflies is on the last page.

This book is a 2019 winner in the 'Story Monster Approved' contest in the category of Green Living/Environmental Issues.  It is a funny, informative, educational story that will leave the readers wanting to get busy planting their very own monarch butterfly garden!
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733844130
Publisher:	Blow and Shine Publishing
Publication date:	02/26/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Mary Ann Falter worked as an RN for 37 years. She is the mother of two married children and a grandmother of three nature-loving young grandchildren. She began her first butterfly garden in 2004 near Cincinnati, Ohio. Now being a grandma, it seemed natural to apply rhyming verse to tell the story of the Monarch butterfly life cycle and the nectar and host plants required to see it all happen. Planting native milkweed species and nectar plants is one way to help the monarchs survive and bring the enchantment of butterflies to your yard! In 2019, she registered her gardens with the Plant for Pollinators Challenge sponsored by the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. This is her first children's book. It is a self-published, print on demand book. She was inspired to write it for young children, parents and grandparents with the hope that simple rhyming words and pictures will encourage the creation of butterfly gardens everywhere.
Emma and Genevieve Falter are the grandchildren of the author. They provided the title and most of the illustrations. They are both in grade school. Emma Falter drew the cover illustration for the book. Genevieve Falter suggested the books title the first night the words were read to her.

Table of Contents

This 30 page children's book narrates a delightful, rhyming, whimsical conversation between Grandma and grandchild in a quest to attract monarch butterflies to their yard. 

There are drawings and photographs of butterflies, plants and the stages of metamorphasis. The life cycle and migration of the monarchs is explained.

A list of seasonal shrubs and plants to attract butterflies is on the last page.