title: The Monarch's Progress: Poems with Wings
author:  Avis Harley 
description: Grade 36"The butterfly was there/before any human art was made." Harley celebrates the beauty and life cycle of monarchs in 18 poems written in a variety of forms and illustrated with realistic, sometimes impressionistic, colored-pencil drawings. To emphasize the four stages of butterfly metamorphosis, four acrostics highlight appropriate terms spelled out in the first letter of each line of poetry ("NEW EGG," "CATERPILLAR," "CHRYALIS," and "IMAGO"). Other structures include haiku, sonnet, limerick, and a delightful abecedarian titled "Wintering Over" ("Amazing/Blazing/Clusters/Decorate/Entire/Forest/Groves...This/Unique,/Velvet-/Winged/X-odus/Yields/Zillions"). Arranged in a long sleek column, this selection is paired with a fine view of a dense cluster of monarchs in a tree in Mexico "Hanging/In/Jeweled/Kingdoms." An author's introduction comments on the structure of some of the poems and invites readers to describe a favorite butterfly in verse. Concluding notes touch back on each entry with bits of factual material about these insects and their behavior. The layout's generous white space adds inviting emphasis and clarity to both text and artwork. This collection offers versatile uses for poetry reading, writing lessons, or introducing natural-history units.<i>Margaret Bush, Simmons College, Boston</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ##  Returning Souls
  
  
  “I should have taken care of you long ago,” the man growled with fury. “A
  mistake I intend to remedy right now!”
  
  
  Harley trembled at the sound of that voice—a voice he had heard often in his
  dreams, and which he felt an overwhelming desire to quiet forever.
  
  
  Turning about in slow circles, his eyes took in everything and nothing all at
  once, the landscape somehow too surreal to be comprehended.
  
  
  “It won’t be as easy as you seem to believe, my lord,” Harley shouted into the
  nothingness. He pulled free the long, wooden stake he had sheathed at his
  side. “I’m not the untried youth you once took under your wing, I am a man. I
  am more than a man. I am an immortal! You cannot kill what is meant to last
  forever!”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##  Copyright© 2013
  
  
  ##  Second Edition: ©2018
  
  
  ##  Robin Joy Wirth
  
  
  ISBN: 9781982929534
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, events and dialog found within
  the story are from the author’s imagination