Book Review

This splendidly illustrated chronicle is no clip art; the authors migrated too. With their excited kids we can meet the humans who know the migrant monarchs well. One island shopkeeper far north on Penobscot Bay (Maine) has long enjoyed the miracle of emergence, and even more the wonder of the children she leads to the monarch experience. We meet Maria near El Rosario (Mexico), tending the grill in her open-air lunch stand where for years she has served a local menu to crowds of monarch watchers, a livelihood in a poor town where logging has been proscribed, so that the groves and the monarchs might survive.

... (Laskey & Knight) followed the story first-hand wherever it led, their pictures are taken on the spot, the people you meet have speaking parts in the drama. Theirs is a longer, harder, way, but it is rewarding, and the books it gives us are special, like this one...

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt