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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780374427863 ISBN: 0374427860 Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 32 Publication Date: March 01, 2004 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Editorial Review: Product Description: Gotta go to Mexico! Although she does not know why or how, a small creepy-crawly bug is certain that she must make her way to Mexico. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great Book!This is a very cute book! I am able to use it with my third graders. This book enables the students to come up with the terminology that a third grader should use (migration). Very cool! Rating: - Orange and Brown Fills the Sky......My first grade loved this book. The repetitive phrase every few pages about going to Mexico is one they enjoyed reciting with me. The beautifully painted pictures allow children and adults to enjoy the obstacle-filled mandatory journey (to survive) for the determined little butterfly. The complete life cycle of the butterfly is wonderfully presented and easy to recall. (The book I had also included a note that the butterfly refuge in Mexico where all Monarchs must winter for survival, is slowly ... Read More Rating: - Cute as a bugThis is a simple and charming story of a caterpiller with an urge to travel to Mexico. Her neighboring animals tease her (it's too far), but she recedes into her cocoon, emerging as a beautiful monarch butterfly, and proves them all wrong by flying south. The story has a winsome sing-song refrain ("I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go to Mexico!") that children will love, and simple engaging line drawings. I'm impressed that the basic science in the story is accurately presented - the stages ... Read More Rating: - Great!This is one of the best children's books I have read in a long time...my kid's love hearing it and I don't tire of reading it again and again.... Wonderful because it tells a true 'nature story' in such a whimsical way. Rating: - Factual, entertaining... what more could you want?Gotta' Go, Gotta' Go is a wonderful book about a monarch caterpillar and his lifelong "journey." I am a nature center director and we use this book to teach about the magnificent monarch migration. The book is entertaining, fun to read out loud, and best of all, factual. Eric Carle's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, is a cute book, but he did us all a disservice when he wrote that butterflies come out of cocoons. Butterflies hatch out of chrysalis, moths hatch out of cocoons. This book by ... Read More |
