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NATIONAL MONTH OF THE PUZZLE… Get Puzzling with Matilda!


January is National Puzzle Month.

Have fun, share with friends and download your own photos too…
Click to Mix and Solve

Click on the puzzle to enjoy some jigsaw puzzling fun to celebrate National Puzzle Month with this beautiful monarch butterfly…
Then, download your own photos and create personal puzzles to solve and share with family and friends.

Here’s the link to a puzzle I designed using my cover photo from the children’s picture book AMAZING MATILDA…
AMAZING MATILDA Co Jigsaw Puzzle

Happy Puzzling!
Bette A. Stevens, author/illustrator of AMAZING MATILDA: A Monarch’s Tale and The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too!

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NATIONAL MONTH OF THE PUZZLE… Get Puzzling with Matilda!


January is National Puzzle Month.

Have fun, share with friends and download your own photos too…
Click to Mix and Solve

Click on the puzzle to enjoy some jigsaw puzzling fun to celebrate National Puzzle Month with this beautiful monarch butterfly…
Then, download your own photos and create personal puzzles to solve and share with family and friends.

Here’s the link to a puzzle I designed using my cover photo from the children’s picture book AMAZING MATILDA…
AMAZING MATILDA Co Jigsaw Puzzle

Happy Puzzling!
Bette A. Stevens, author/illustrator of AMAZING MATILDA: A Monarch’s Tale and The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too!

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Children's Activities, Holiday Greeting, Monarch butterflies, My Books

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Get your AUTHORGRAPHS from author Bette A. Stevens


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THANKS so much for buying my book(s). If you’ve already got your kindle copies of AMAZING MATILDA and/or PURE TRASH, I would love to send you a Message & an Autographed Cover for your kindle library. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! Here’s the link that will take you to both of my kindle books on Authorgraph…

http://www.authorgraph.com/authors/BetteAStevens

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Find out more about author/illustrator Bette A. Stevens and her books at http://www.Amazon.com/author/betteastevens
AMAZING MATILDA: 2013 Purple Dragonfly Award-winning picture book (ages 6-10)
PURE TRASH, The Story: 1950s short story adventure (YA/Adult)
THE TANGRAM ZOO & WORD PUZZLES TOO! Children’s activity book (Ages 4-12)

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on 12/12/2013

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Monarch Butterflies


Learn about our Amazing Monarchs! ~ Bette A. Stevens http://www.4writersandreaders.com

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Have you ever seen one of these? It’s a Monarch Butterfly. Every spring, millions fly from Mexico and southern California to other parts of the US and southern Canada. And every autumn, they fly back. On the first of November, called the Day of the Dead, people celebrate the return of the monarchs to the mountainous fir forests of Central Mexico.

But their numbers are dropping. In 1997, there were 150 million. Last year there were only 60 million. One problem is the gradual sterilization of American farmlands thanks to powerful herbicides like Roundup. Monarch butterfly larvae eat a plant called milkweed. But the amount of this plant in Iowa, for example, has dropped between 60% and 90% over the last decade.

And this year was much worse for the monarchs. They came late to Mexico… and I think only 3 million have been seen so far! That’s a…

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on 11/26/2013

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