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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...
Oct 31, 20212 min read
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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...
Oct 24, 20211 min read
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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...
Oct 18, 20214 min read
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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...
Oct 11, 20212 min read
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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...
Oct 4, 20212 min read
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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...
Sep 27, 20212 min read
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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...
Sep 20, 20212 min read
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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...
Sep 13, 20211 min read
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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,...
Sep 6, 20212 min read
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Mondays with Millie: MEET MILLIE!
Hi, there! This is Millie the Monarch caterpillar. Millie is a fourth generation Monarch caterpillar. Monarchs have four generations...
Aug 30, 20212 min read
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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...
Aug 25, 20211 min read
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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...
Aug 18, 20211 min read
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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...
Aug 10, 20211 min read
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Excited to get Millie!
This is one of the cutest things ever! Little Julian was super pumped to get his copy of Millie!
Aug 8, 20211 min read
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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!
Jul 29, 20211 min read
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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...
Jul 26, 20211 min read
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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...
Jul 21, 20211 min read
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RAISING MONARCHS
Part of the research for writing and illustrating Millie included raising monarch butterflies! They started out as eggs and then once...
Jul 19, 20211 min read
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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. ...
Jul 14, 20211 min read
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