No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart, Allen Yong, Nicole Wong English poetry Maria Sibylla Merian was also

Maria Sibylla Merian was also one of the first to document the metamorphosis of the butterfly

full-color photographs

and political nonfiction

is a perfect gift for all nature lovers

She has also returned to the family business--writing children's books--after working as a probation/parole officer and a private investigator

No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart, Allen Yong, Nicole Wong English poetry Maria Sibylla Merian was alsoEveryone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it's made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist? This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees couldn't survive without the help of a menagerie of rain forest critters: a pollen sucking midge, an aphid munching anole lizard, brain eating coffin fly maggots