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Monarch

by (author) Stephen Hume

Publisher
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Initial publish date
Feb 2025
Category
General

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781554556069
    Publish Date
    Feb 2025
    List Price
    $23.95

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 5 to 9
  • Grade: k to 4
  • Reading age: 5 to 9

Description

While exploring outside near his Vancouver Island home, a young boy discovers a butterfly with big orange wings. His older sister tells him what she has learned in school about Monarch butterflies and how they fly south each winter.
Their butterfly has been blown off course from the other butterflies migrating south so they start leaving out fruit so it can build up its strength and rejoin the trip south.

About the author

Stephen Hume was raised in fishing, farming and logging communities across Alberta and BC and studied at the University of Victoria. A journalist for over 35 years, Hume was editor-in-chief at the Edmonton Journal before moving to BC to become columnist and feature writer for the Vancouver Sun. He has won more than a dozen awards for his poetry, essays and journalism, including the Writers Guild of Alberta Literary Award, the Southam President's Award and the Marjorie Nichols Memorial Award. Stephen became the first Canadian to win the Dolly Connelly prize for environmental writing. His other books include Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed, Bush Telegraph and Off the Map, which was shortlisted for a Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize. He currently teaches professional writing at the University of Victoria.

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A Stain Upon the Sea

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