"A Butterfly Called Hope" by Mary Alice Monroe, photography by Barbara J. Bergwerf

Hardcover ISBN: 9781607188544, $17.95
Paperback ISBN: 9781607188568, $9.95

“A Butterfly Called Hope” is an absolutely delightful and beautiful book about a little girl that discovers the caterpillar in her flower garden that become a Monarch butterfly.  She learns about how a caterpillar eats milkweed, and she watches as the caterpillar encases itself in a chrysalis and then is transformed into a beautiful Monarch butterfly.
 
She wishes to keep the lovely butterfly captive where she can watch it, but her mother convinces her that the butterfly needs to fly free.  So she releases the butterfly and names it.
 
This lovely book is also educational, and not just because the mother daughter exchange teaches, but because in the back of the book there are pages that cover the Monarch Life Cycle Sequencing, a Butterfly Vocabulary Matching Activity, a Monarch Generations and Migrations fact page, and some information on Raising Monarchs.

The author, Mary Alice Monroe, has written a really good book that entertains and educates at the same time. The photography of Barbara J. Bergwerf is outstanding. This is a book to highly recommend to parents, schools, and libraries. 
 
DISCLOSURE:  We received a complimentary copy of A Butterfly Called Hope from Sylvan Dell Publishing in exchange for our honest review. No compensation was received for this review.