07/17/2024
Just finishing up another wonderful STEAM book by Marta E. Magellan and Mauro Magellan. If you want to share the beautiful world of butterflies with your kids, this is the book!
Reviewed by an educational leader at Teachers College, Mary Ehrenworth, who is utilizing it in her own textbook to teach teachers how to teach kids scientific vocabulary!
Up, Up, and Away Monarch Butterflies gives teachers and children what they crave - significant science in an enticing package. Young readers will flock to the mesmerizing story of these magical creatures, while teachers will love to see their readers interpreting migration diagrams and life cycle charts and learning expert, domain vocabulary.
Marta, Mauro, and James work their magic again with this book that not only teaches children about the incredible life cycle of the Monarch, it gets them to fall in love with science and the natural world.
This book offers everything that I look for in nonfiction for children. It teaches serious science, including scientific concepts and vocabulary, it calls children in as stewards and naturalists, and it lures readers into complex nonfiction.
Just as Amazing, Misunderstood Bats, led young readers to understand and love bats, Up, Up, and Away Monarch Butterflies will create young entomologists. The care for the natural world, the respect for children as stewards of this world, and the belief that young readers can learn serious science, permeates this magical text.
Up, Up, and Away, Monarch Butterflies, is written by Marta Magellan, with illustrations by Mauro Magellan and photographs by James Gersing. It is a marvelous text, the kind of nonfiction that respects children as learners and teaches significant science while enthralling them with beautiful illustrations, complex charts and diagrams, and fabulous nature photography.
Dr. Mary Ehrenworth is Acting Director of Teachers College Advancing Literacy, Columbia University. Her work takes her to classrooms around the world. One of her passions is inspiring young people to love science and care for the planet.
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