![]() Agent: Michelle Tessler, Tessler Literary. Nature-loving readers will surely share the joy Williams takes in her subject in this admiring tribute to the butterfly. Jennifer Ackerman, New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds Enchanting.This is a wonderful read. It changed the way I see these mesmerizing insects and the natural world. She also discusses the factors behind declining butterfly populations, from habitat destruction to climate change, but remains optimistic that corrective action is still possible. Award-Winning Journalist and Author The Language of Butterflies Williams is a masterful storyteller.I love this book. Williams spends much time on monarch butterfly biology, discussing the insects’ ability to migrate thousands of miles and the iridescent wing scales that give them, like all butterflies, their signature patterns. ![]() Captivated by the insects’ beauty, she writes, “The language of butterflies is the language of color,” and that she likes to “imagine them as the world’s first artists.” She relates the stories of similarly entranced people, including Maria Sibylla Merian, who, in the 17th century, cast aside gender norms to pursue entomology and traveled from her native Germany to Suriname to find the spectacular blue morpho butterfly, in the process writing the first account of the caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation. ![]() ![]() Science journalist Williams ( The Horse), mixing a discussion of her experiences learning about butterflies with an overview of centuries’ worth of research, offers a deeply personal and lyrical book that also provides meaningful scientific insight. ![]()
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