Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian

Documents the work of a young girl, Maria Merian, who lived during the Middle Ages and disproved the theory of spontaneous generation by observing caterpillars as they spun cocoons and emerged as butterflies and moths in the spring. By the author of the Newbery Honor Book, The Surrender Tree.

• | Author: Margarita Engle
• | Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
• | Publication Date: April 27, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 32 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0805089373
• | ISBN-13: 9780805089370