Malinda Martha Meets Mariposa: A Star Is Born

Features

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Cover Type: Paperback with 32 pages
• Published by: Images Press November 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1891577581
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1891577581
• Book Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Weighs: 4.8 ounces

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4 This book has a bit of a split personality. On the one hand, Trimble's text provides a good deal of useful information on the life cycle of a Monarch butterfly. On the other, it offers a brief natural history play, suitable for presentation on a parents' night, or to an elementary-school assembly. Young Malinda Martha, assigned a "summer vacation" essay on the first day of school, daydreams about a backyard theater, in which the drama of Monarch metamorphosis is presented in four acts (egg, larva, pupa, and adult), with costumed children cast in all the parts. Lund's colorful illustrations present Malinda Martha's production with careful attention to dress and stage setting. He also incorporates part of the factual text into a cumulative litany tucked around the sunflowery borders on many of the pages. There are plenty of fiction and nonfiction titles available about Monarchs, but considering this as a play (cataloged in the 812.5s), it may be viewed as an unusual addition. Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap
A lot can happen in five weeks. A whole life cycle! Nature's miracle of metamorphosis! In Malinda Martha Meets Mariposa, Malinda Martha imagines this miracle or nature happening in her own backyard. When, on the first day back to school, Malinda Martha is faced with writing about her summer vacation, images of the sunflowers that she grew in her summer garden pop into her head and fall as a curtain of sunflower faces before herwhereupon a stage appears and she imagines herself producing and directing a show featuring the metamorphosis of a Monarch butterfly. What Malinda Martha really shares with the class is pleasantly open to the reader's imagination. John Lund brings together imagination and reality with his charming illustrations of Malinda Martha's theatrical production and his true-to-life-images in the stages of the life cycle of the Monarchsubtly painted into a decorative border for children to find as they follow the continuous cycle of text and illustration. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.