Shifty Characters, invites early readers into the world of change from a lyrical, language arts point of view. These shifty characters have the ability to reposition and re-invent themselves without adding or omitting a single letter. They go about t
Theresa Marie Haak is a 5th grade teacher who loves to write, travel, sing and read to children. She was inspired to write her first children's book, Monty Finds His Family Tree, by the many drawings of butterflies given to her by her students in Dickinson, Texas. She has a Master of Arts in Humanities from the University of Houston at Clear Lake and a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-TV-Film
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I'm fascinated by the relationship of fiction to nonfiction. True events drive the fantasy in Monty Finds His Family Tree.
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Scientists have said that one flap of a butterfly’s wings can have an affect on the weather of the world. Just imagine what millions and millions of flaps can do.
When autumn arrives, hundreds of millions of Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada through the United States to spend the winter under the protection of the pine and fir forests in central Mexico.
This is a story of one such family of butterflies on their journey south to complete the other half of a miracle.
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Abilene, TX USA
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Theresa M. Haak, Children's Author
P. O. Drawer F
Santa Fe TX 77510
USA
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