A Monarch Universe Children's Picture Book
by TC and me
Entertaining, educational, and electronic
Trade Cover, CD, and E-book
Ages 3 to 10 for trade cover and
CD/E-book audio slideshow

Ages 5 to 10 for CD and E-Book,
pictures and text version, with Internet Resources

A Monarch Universe Children's Picture Book
Text Only by TC and me (free ebook)

Monarch, Milkweed, and Universal Internet Resources:

Monarch and Milkweed Resources

"Return of the monarch: Its numbers seem to be increasing and so, too, its range,"
by Robert Sheppard, CBS News, July 30, 2007
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/nature/monarchs.html

"The monarch and the milkweed," by Roxana Robinson, International Herald Tribune, September 7, 2006:  http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/06/opinion/edroxana.php

"Toxic pollen from widely planted, genetically modified corn can kill monarch butterflies, Cornell study shows"
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/May99/Butterflies.bpf.html

US Department of Agriculture report on genetically modified corn:  http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/btcorn/

Monarch's Pupal Stage - Incredible Video of the Monarch life cycle:  http://clayruth.com/pupa.html

Monarch Butterfly USA:  http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/MBUSA.htm

The Monarch Life Cycle in Photos:  http://www.linknot.com/Magic-Garden/Monarch-chrysalis.htm

Monarch Watch Reading Room:  http://www.monarchwatch.org/read/articles/canweed2.htm

Do you know a Monarch when you see one?: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/sl/8/1.html

Universal Resources

“Stereo Pair, Patagonia, Argentina,” Visible Earth Web Site, 6/14/2007:
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=308

http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/308/PIA02756_md.jpg

“The Earth’s Magnetic Field,” The Scottish Technology Science RoadShow Web Site, September 8, 2007:
http://www.scifun.ed.ac.uk/card/images/left/earth-magfield.jpg

“The Butterfly Cluster,” From Wikipedia, Messier’s Deep Sky Objects, December 4, 2007:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Cluster

“M6 Open Cluster,” on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
September 16, 2007:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M6a.jpg

“NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Siamese Twins or the Butterfly Galaxies)”
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, June 4, 2007:
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4567_and_NGC_4568

“NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Small Impact Crater 06-22-2005,”
MarsToday.com, June 14, 2007:
http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=17089

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/06/22/2005.06.22.S0501033.gif

“The Butterfly Nebula,” Space.com Image of the Day,
September 23, 2003:
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_030923.html

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UPfirst.com 'A Monarch Universe' Toy Fair 2008 Press Release

The American International Toy Fair
New York, NY, Feb. 17-20, 2008
The Combined Book Exhibit

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A Monarch Universe is a children's picture book about a bright monarch butterfly dreaming of the Monarch life cycle and her universal connections. The full-color e-book contains beautiful artwork created by Todd Carter, lyrical text by Michaeleen O'Sullivan, and is whimsically read by Betsie Bush (all from Marquette, Michigan).

The CD and E-book (download) contain two versions of this multimedia presentation, both in Adobe PDF format (requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader):
1. Audio reading synchronized with the artwork in an automatic slide-show format.
2. Printed text (no audio) displayed side by side the artwork and controlled manually to read at your own pace. Related web-resources are included at the end of this version.

"Plant MILKWEED FOR MONARCHS!
Please ask your friends fast.
Without Milkweed for Monarchs,
We might not always last."

Entertaining, educational, electronic!
Recommended ages:  5 to 10
Pages:  36

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