Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian - Couverture rigide

Engle, Margarita

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0805089373 ISBN 13 : 9780805089370

Editeur : Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Summer Birds In 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 paintin... Full description

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À propos des auteurs

Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, memoirs, and picture books, including The Surrender Tree, All the Way to Havana, Bravo!, Drum Dream Girl, and Dancing Hands. Awards include a Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré Medals, Golden Kite Award, Walter Honor, Jane Addams Award, PEN U.S.A., and NSK Neustadt Prize, among others. Margarita served as the national 2017-2019 Young People's Poet Laureate.

Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother's homeland during childhood summers with relatives on the island. She studied agronomy and botany along with creative writing, and now lives in central California.

Julie Paschkis is a painter and award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudi, and Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella. A love of pattern and of folk art shows in all her work. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805089373
• ISBN 13: 9780805089370
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Paschkis Julie
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible