Isabel's House of Butterflies

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Summary: A poignant story of difficult real-life choices
Review: The captivating full-page color artwork by Susan Guevara fairly leaps from the pages of Tony Johnston's Isabel's House Of Butterflies, a stunning picture book about a Mexican family with a young daughter, and the tree on their land that is a wintering place for thousands of monarch butterflies that migrate from the north. When they come, the tree becomes La casa de las mariposas - the house of the butterflies. But the family is very poor, and may need to cut down the tree to sell its wood to survive. A poignant story of difficult real-life choices and wonder for natural miracles, Isabel's House Of Butterflies would make a welcome addition to any school or community library collection.