Mondays with Millie: Millie's Amazing Transformation
The transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is a miraculous one. It's also a wonderful metaphor to contemplate for when we are...
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by Alison Shepard
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- Oct 24, 2021
- 1 min
Mondays with Millie: Fall Fun!
Are you looking for some fun things to do this autumn? There are some really great family fun activities to check out on the west side...
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- Oct 18, 2021
- 4 min
Mondays with Millie: Do you have a dream?
"Asleep in the garden, Millie dreamed of her fate. She could hardly believe in something so great." Do you have a dream? I think all of...
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- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Mondays with Millie: Meet Millie's Mentor!
Sometimes it's difficult for us to see our hidden potential. That was definitely the case for Millie. She had these secret longings...
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- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Mondays with Millie: Meet Diego! Millie's fast-flying, world traveling friend.
Did you know that dragonflies are terrific bugs to have a round for pest control? Yes, that's right, they eat many of the bugs that can...
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- Sep 27, 2021
- 2 min
Mondays with Millie: Meet Gordon, Millie's fun-loving friend!
Millie's friend, Gordon the grasshopper is a fun-loving friend. He loves to jump and fly and run. Do you have a friend like Gordon? Or...
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- Sep 20, 2021
- 2 min
Mondays with Millie: Meet Lois, Millie's sweet and tiny friend!
Did you know that there are around 6,000 different types of ladybugs worldwide? How incredible! Actually, a lady bug isn't considered...
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- Sep 13, 2021
- 1 min
Mondays with Millie: Meet Boris, Millie's industrious friend!
Boris is an Eastern Hercules Beetle. The Hercules Beetle gets its namesake from the Greek Hero, Hercules, who was known for his...
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- Sep 6, 2021
- 2 min
Mondays with Millie! What does a hungry Monarch caterpillar EAT?
Did you know that monarch caterpillar's sole source of food is milkweed? Can you imagine only eating one kind of food all the time? Well,...
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- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
Mondays with Millie: MEET MILLIE!
Hi, there! This is Millie the Monarch caterpillar. Millie is a fourth generation Monarch caterpillar. Monarchs have four generations...
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- Aug 25, 2021
- 1 min
Chrysalis or Cocoon?
Is a chrysalis like a cocoon? Is there a difference? Yes! Cocoons are the technical term for the silk casing that moths weave around...
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- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
Millie Fans!
We love it when you share your photos and videos with us of reading Millie! Thank you, Danielle! It's wonderful that they are reading it...
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- Aug 10, 2021
- 1 min
IT'S HERE! Our 1st Animated Millie Commercial!
What a blessing! We are so excited about our first animate Millie short video! I could not have done this without the amazing talents of...
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- Aug 8, 2021
- 1 min
Excited to get Millie!
This is one of the cutest things ever! Little Julian was super pumped to get his copy of Millie!
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- Jul 29, 2021
- 1 min
Send us your photos with Millie!
Send us your photos with Millie and we will share them! The joy on their faces is so precious Thank you, Gina, for capturing this moment!
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- Jul 26, 2021
- 1 min
THE MAKING OF MILLIE
Each page of Millie the Monarch started out with a charcoal line drawing. After doing the drawing, many of the pages of Millie began...
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- Jul 21, 2021
- 1 min
The Monarch Emerges!
This photo is of the Monarch after emerging from the chrysalis. It was such an exciting day! I was so in awe of how beautiful it was, and...
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- Jul 19, 2021
- 1 min
RAISING MONARCHS
Part of the research for writing and illustrating Millie included raising monarch butterflies! They started out as eggs and then once...
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- Jul 14, 2021
- 1 min
Young Millie Munching on Milkweed
It was so much fun to raise a monarch caterpillar and watch it grow and transform! Here is a photo of Millie munching on some milkweed. ...
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