An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly
by Laurence Pringle
Picture book · ages 5–9 · grades K–4 · 620L · 64 pages · 2000
Why we'd hand it over
Pringle's deadpan prose and Merle Insinger's watercolors make the monarch's perilous four-generation migration genuinely gripping—kids see a creature's whole life in 40 pages and understand why it matters.