When the beautiful orange Monarch on her fall migration route from Canada to Mexico stops to rest at Wichita Falls Texas she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry She tells him Maybe one day youll break out of that shell grow wings and fly away and then she is off again with millions of other Monarchs In the spring she stops again at Hurrys garden just long enough to lay her eggs and head north to Canada Embedded in this lyrical and tender fictional presentation are the fascinating facts about the amazing 2000mile migration and the life cycle of butterflies An afterword provides additional scientific data