Malinda Martha Meets Mariposa: A Star Is Born - Hardcover

A lot can happen in five weeks. A whole life cycle! Nature's miracle of metamorphosis! In Malinda Martha Meets Mariposa, Malinda Martha imagines this miracle or nature happening in her own backyard. When, on the first day back to school, Malinda Martha is faced with writing about her summer vacation, images of the sunflowers that she grew in her summer garden pop into her head and fall as a curtain of sunflower faces before her...whereupon a stage appears and she imagines herself producing and directing a show featuring the metamorphosis of a Monarch butterfly. What Malinda Martha really shares with the class is pleasantly open to the reader's imagination. John Lund brings together imagination and reality with his charming illustrations of Malinda Martha's theatrical production and his true-to-life-images in the stages of the life cycle of the Monarch...subtly painted into a decorative border for children to find as they follow the continuous cycle of text and illustration.

Marcia Trimble says her theatrical rendition of the metamorphosis of the Monarch evolved from her wish to do something different and exciting for children in the presentation of this much loved but often written about subject. Her experience as a teacher and her daughter Malinda's interest in acting inspired her to offer children the enjoyment that comes from active learning...the chance to act out the life cycle of the Monarch. Nowadays the author plants asclepias fascicularis in her backyard dreaming that Monarch butterflies will fluttter about in her own garden. Readers of The Smiling Stone illustrated by Susan Arciero, Witchy's Turned Around House illustrated by Chad Cameron, P. Hermit Claims a Castle illustrated by George Ulrich, and Malinda Martha and Her Skipping Stones illustrated by Susi Grell, will welcome Malinda Martha Meets Mariposa, a tribute to Malinda Martha herself.

John Lund has metamorphosed into an artist...after studying history and languages at the University of British Columbia, traveling the world, and working as an actor in Los Angeles for television and as a consultant in marketing and sales in real estate development projects. It is as a self-taught artist that he has fulfilled his dream of being an artist for children's picture books. His impressive credits in this favorite stage of his life, include The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss and Sesame Street series, and Classic Children's Stories. John's varied hobbies...reading history books, hiking, traveling and visiting historical sites...assure him of being a well-rounded artist.