Children’s A unique work on the life cycle, hardships, and the marvelous strength of one of nature's most fragile and familiar creatures and to ask for volunteer help in the study of Monarch butterfly migration. The text does this by following the course of a Monarch butterfly tagged near Toronto with a request for the finder to send word to the scientist running the study. ""X"" got all the way to San Luis Potosi, Mexico where a little boy caught him and sent in the information. There is a map of the flight which helps student readers to the visual concept of the great length of the journey, which is projected south through the Virginias and Carolinas to the Okefenokee Swamp and then west along the Gulf coast into Texas and Mexico. 64 pages, richly illustrated.