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By Margarita EngleSummer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian[Hardcover] April 27, 2010 Hardcover – January 1, 2010
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHenry Holt and Co. (BYR)
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2010
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- ASIN : B014GKQFQM
- Publisher : Henry Holt and Co. (BYR); 1st edition (January 1, 2010)
- Language : English
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About the authors

Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American winner of the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her award winning young adult novels in verse include The Surrender Tree, The Poet Slave of Cuba, and The Lightning Dreamer, winner of the PEN USA Award.
Engle's most recent books are Orangutanka, Drum Dream Girl, The Sky Painter, and Enchanted Air. All of these books are to be released in 2015. For news and updates, visit http://margaritaengle.com/
She lives in central California, where she enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs.

Julie Paschkis is a painter, textile designer, and award winning illustrator and author of books for children.
Several third party sellers are currently selling objects here at Amazon with my art on them: phone covers, skateboards, socks and lunch bags. They didn’t ask my permission, nor are they paying me. Please don’t buy these products. Please do my books! Thank you.
Her latest book, which she wrote and illustrated is MAGIC SPELL. Please look for FLUTTER AND HUM and APPLE CAKE - A LOVE STORY.
PABLO NERUDA:POET OF THE PEOPLE by Monica Brown is an Americas Award Winner and an Orbis Pictus Honor book. NIGHT GARDEN: POEMS FROM THE WORLD OF DREAMS by Janet Wong was a 2000 New York Times Best Illustrated Book. YELLOW ELEPHANT by Julie Larios received a 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award Book. Many of her books have been named to Best Books of the Year list including GLASS SLIPPER, GOLD SANDAL by Paul Fleischman, which a NY Times Notable Book, a BookSense Pick, a New York Public Library 100 Best Book, and a Kirkus Best Book for 2007.
You can see her love of pattern and folk art in her work. All of her work tells stories. The many children's books she has illustrated include folk tales, poetry and biography.
She blogs with 3 other children's book creators at Books Around The Table at wordpress.
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Margarita Engle's writing and the pictures by Julie Paschkis combine so well to tell the story of Maria Merian, who I learned was born in Germany (1647).
I studied and worked in education for 20 years and had the privilege of teaching students from the early childhood level to grandparents. In my opinion, this book will appeal to all. As I watch butterflies from now on, I will think of "Summer Birds." My mother was German, so I also felt a personal connection. Wonderful book!
The art work is also not up to snuff. There are a couple of really good compositions and the rest is filler.
All in all, I feel I was somewhat snookered by this book promotion, and I doubt my granddaughter will seek out this book for the story nor the illustrations in her day to day book reading.








