Kid Review – Home is Calling – picture book
Pryor, Katherine. Home is Calling: The Journey of the Monarch Butterfly. Illustrated by Ellie Peterson. New York: WorthyKids, 2023.
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Summary of Home is Calling
Join the monarchs as they embark on a transcontinental journey home in this moving story about migration.
As the sun dawns in Canada, a flutter of monarch butterflies take flight, ready to begin their months-long journey to their ancestral home in Mexico. The migration will not be easy, but it is necessary for the next generation of monarchs to be born. Brought to life with illustrations as vivid as the monarch’s iconic orange and black hues, this story invites young readers to experience the monarch’s migration from the butterflies’ point of view as they search for food, huddle together through storms, and tirelessly fly south.
Parents and educators alike will find much to love about this poetically written book. The story touches on how climate change and deforestation are impacting monarchs, and kid-friendly back matter provides additional information about the butterflies, including their life cycle, anatomy, and migratory patterns, as well as several simple ways children can help monarch butterflies themselves.
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My Kid Review of Home is Calling
I love picture books that teach children science in the midst of telling a good story. Katherine Pryor has achieved that with Home is Calling. She has written her text in such a way as to draw readers (and listeners) from one page to the next. It will keep the interest of the children. She closes the book with a non fiction section detailed enough to use for research.
Ellie Peterson created beautiful illustrations to compliment the text. They are realistic and portray the travels of the monarch butterflies, helping children see things they may never see in real life.
Home is Calling would be an excellent resource for a primary or elementary classroom or homeschool studying the life cycle of butterflies.
K-12 Christian school libraries will want this book in their collection to assist young children in their understanding of monarch butterflies. I highly recommend it.
I received a complimentary copy of Home is Calling. This is my honest review.