Mr. McGinty’s Monarchs By Linda Vander Heyden and Illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewen
On lazy afternoons Mr McGinty watched monarchs dip and rise on the summer breeze With his magnifying glass he studied them sipping sweet nectar from the flowers And when Mr McGinty and Sophie went for long walks he marveled as monarchs flitted and fluttered from milkweed to milkweed laying eggs
Milkweed’s the only plant a monarch uses to lay its eggs he told Sophie When the eggs hatch the caterpillars feed on the leaves What d’ya think of that Sophie’s tail thump thump thumped
