Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian by Margarita Engle corporate Our Native Bees is a

Our Native Bees is a keeper for people interested in our food supply--gardeners in particular--as it relates to bees

This companion to the celebrated Mama Built a Little Nest explores the many different kinds of dens animals build for their babies

including the complex and intelligent speech of Crows

(Winner of the AAAS Subaru Prize for kids science books)

often missed in adult preaching and teaching

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian by Margarita Engle corporate Our Native Bees is aIn the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation. Maria Merian was only a child, but she disagreed. She watched carefully as caterpillars spun themselves cocoons, which opened to reveal summer birds, or butterflies and moths. Maria studied the whole life cycle of the summer birds, and documented what she learned in vibrant paintings. This is the story of one young girl who took the