- For children 6 and up.
- Beautiful full-color illustrations and contains a special message from Dr. Jane Goodall.
- Produced in partnership with the Butterfly Pavilion of Westminster, Colorado, a nationally recognized educational facility visited by over 250,000 people each year.

For nearly 100 years, the 10,000 member Colorado Mountain Club has been a leading voice in conservation and outdoor recreation. Now the CMC launches a new book series which strives to develop and nurture that same love for the outdoors in our children and young adults. In planning this series, the CMC faced a challenge. In a world of sophisticated media where children have so many other options than reading, how do you hold interest so that your message can get through?

With expertise from the CMC, whose Youth Education Program serves thousands of kids yearly, and working with the Butterfly Pavilion, one of the nation's experts in reaching children about nature, the result was Morpha: A Rain Forest Story. Using an exciting narrative that brims with adventure, quirky and amusing characters, and an upbeat conclusion that gives children hope for the future, the book teaches kids in a fun and entertaining way about today's environmental challenges and issues. Richly drawn, full-color illustrations bring the spectacular, rain forest world of Morpha to life. Whimsy is a major factor here - kids will revisit the book time and again to search out the weird, half-hidden, side-characters that peer from beneath a leaf or circle the sky. A short message from world-renowned conservationalist Dr. Jane Goodall focuses the meaning of the book for kids.

Morpha is the first from The Colorado Mountain Club's "Wilderness Kids" children's book series, developed to nurture an appreciation of nature and science, teach outdoor skills, and foster environmental responsibility in kids. Future books in the series will be appearing at the rate of twice a year. All will have great stories about the outdoors, fantastic art, illustrated glossaries, Teacher's Help pages designed for today's educational standards (for optional classroom use), plus most will have fun activities that compliment the stories and help hold the child's interest.

Michael Tennyson is a former natural resource manager and now teaches elementary school in Philadelphia, PA. Award-winning artist Jennifer H. Yoswa has taught elementary students for sixteen years in Colorado.

40 pages, 81/2" x 11", illustrated in full color, with Glossary and Teacher's Help Page, hardbound, $14.95, ISBN 0-9671466-8-2

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