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Gotta Go! Gotta Go!: A Picture Book Spiral-Bound | March 1, 2004

Sam Swope, Sue Riddle (Illustrated by)

★★★★☆+ from 101 to 500 ratings

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An incredible journey

"I don't know much, but I know what I know. I gotta go! I gotta go! I gotta go to Mexico!" The creepy-crawly bug doesn't know why she does what she does. She only knows she has to do it. But making the journey seems impossible for the slow-moving critter, who has no idea what or where Mexico is. Then an everyday miracle occurs, bringing a transformation that will help her fulfill her destiny. Each autumn, millions of Monarch butterflies migrate from the central and eastern United States and Canada to colonies in the mountains of Mexico, where they mate before flying north in the spring to lay their eggs. In simple, jaunty text and pictures, Sam Swope and Sue Riddle celebrate the amazing story of one of these intrepid bugs.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0374427860
Item Weight: 0.2 lbs
Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.09 x 7.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 101 to 500 ratings
This small square book dramatizes the astonishing journey of the Monarch butterfly, and the powerful instinct that drives it to fly as much as 3,000 miles from the U.S. to Mexico for the winter . . . Even preschoolers will feel the excitement about this most fragile of creatures that can fly so far and prove so strong.

Sam Swope is the author of two previous picture books, The Krazees and The Araboolies of Liberty Street. He lives in New York City.

Sue Riddle lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Gotta Go! Gotta Go! is his first book.