Isabel's House of Butterflies

by Tony Johnston

Book Overview

Outside her home in Michoac n, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578051282
• ISBN13: 9781578051281
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books for Children
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A poignant story of difficult real-life choices

The captivating full-page color artwork by Susan Guevara fairly leaps from the pages of Tony Johnston's Isabel's House Of Butterflies, a stunning picture book about a Mexican family with a young daughter, and the tree on their land that is a wintering place for thousands of monarch butterflies that migrate from the north. When they come, the tree becomes La casa de las mariposas - the house of the butterflies. But the family is very poor, and may need to cut down the tree to sell its wood to survive. A poignant story of difficult real-life choices and wonder for natural miracles, Isabel's House Of Butterflies would make a welcome addition to any school or community library collection.