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Outside her home in Michoacán, Mexico, grows eight-year-old Isabel's greatest treasure: an oyamel tree. Every autumn, a miracle happens-for Isabel's tree is the wintering place for thousands upon thousands of monarch butterflies that migrate from the north. When they flutter down to roost, they transform Isabel's tree into La casa de las mariposas-The House of Butterflies. But this wonder is in danger of disappearing forever. Isabel's family is poor, and it has been a cruel, dry year for Papa's meager crop of corn and beans. Soon, chopping down the tree to sell its wood may be the family's only hope for survival. What will happen to the butterflies then?
Tony Johnston's poignant tale, as brief and luminous as the lives of the butterflies themselves, is all the more compelling because of the real-life dilemma it presents. Lush paintings by Susan Guevara radiate with the warmth and tenderness between Isabel and her family, and capture Mexican rural life in all its vibrant color and natural beauty.
Tony Johnston's poignant tale, as brief and luminous as the lives of the butterflies themselves, is all the more compelling because of the real-life dilemma it presents. Lush paintings by Susan Guevara radiate with the warmth and tenderness between Isabel and her family, and capture Mexican rural life in all its vibrant color and natural beauty.
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Tony Johnston is the author of more than one hundred books for young readers, including Desert Song and Desert Dog. Tony's work has received high praise from reviewers and garnered many prestigious awards. She lives in San Marino, California.
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I am Isabel. I am eight. And I have my very own tree. An oyamel. It grows outside the window, like a green church touching the sky. I call it La casa de las mariposas, The House of Butterflies.
Where I live, in Mexico, in the mountains, many oyameles grow. Sometimes, when people are hungry, they chop them down to sell the wood. But we could never do that. In the autumn, butterflies come to roost in my tree.
Where I live, in Mexico, in the mountains, many oyameles grow. Sometimes, when people are hungry, they chop them down to sell the wood. But we could never do that. In the autumn, butterflies come to roost in my tree.
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- PublisherSierra Club Books For Children
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1578051282
- ISBN 13 9781578051281
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorGuevara Susan
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