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Monarca

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Una conmovedora novela gráfica escrita e ilustrada por los exitosos artistas y cineastas Leopoldo Gout y Eva Aridjis.

En su decimoquinto cumpleaños, Inés recibe un misterioso collar de su abuela en México. Cuando lo usa, se transforma en una mariposa monarca y recibe el llamado de unirse a la migración para salvar a las mariposas y el legado de su familia. En un viaje lleno de peligros, viajarán desde Nueva York hasta el santuario de Sierra Chincua y, en el camino, Inés aprenderá sobre la conexión entre todas las criaturas y la urgente necesidad de proteger la migración de la monarca. Inés descubre por qué se convirtió en monarca, desentrañando el misterio de la familia y descubriendo el secreto para salvar a los monarcas.

Fortalecida con el conocimiento de su linaje y la conexión mística con las monarcas, Inés logra proteger a esta generación de mariposas y aprender que, ya seas una niña o una mariposa, nadie es demasiado pequeño para cambiar el mundo.

Monarca combina el folclore mexicano, el ambientalismo y el realismo mágico para inspirar a los lectores a proteger el mundo sagrado que los rodea.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 11, 2022
      Gout (Daniel X: Alien Hunter) and Aridjis (La Santa Muerte) spin a metaphysical fable, weighted down by heavy-handed messaging. Inés is turning 13, and her father gives her an obsidian necklace “radiating energy,” which has been in the family for generations. Wearing the stone transforms Inés into a monarch butterfly, and she is sent on a journey by an insect seer to join a local swarm in their migration to the butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán, Mexico (he intones: “On the day the souls of the dead return to visit the earth, there will be a final battle for which you were chosen at birth”). Using a monarch’s life cycle to frame a magical narrative, Inés encounters myriad challenges ranging from pesticides to crooked farmers to an ancestral enemy armed with a butterfly hunting hawk. In a culminating battle between man and insect, Inés accepts her role as “a daughter of the sun.” But while passionate emotions and themes of environmental advocacy buoy the story, the moral messages land as didactic (“She’d learned how to feed and sunbathe, but most importantly she’d learned about community.”) The messy, mixed-media art and hybrid of comics and picture-book format lends to the mythological quality, with bright colors and painterly composition. Though aimed at all ages, it’s most likely to appeal to junior readers. It’s preachy, but it still packs a lot of heart. Agent: Lisa Gallagher, DeFiore and Company.

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