Fern and Newt and the Lost Loot

Key Selling Points

• After Fern and Newt accidentally lose her sister’s jewelry box at the beach, they earn money by helping a neighbor pull weeds and collect butterfly eggs in order to buy a metal detector to find it.
• Shows kids learning the consequences of their actions in a lighthearted and funny way. Also demonstrates their ingenuity and ability to problem solve—and work hard—to try to fix their wrongdoings.
• Despite the challenges and failures they experience, Fern and Newt have a strong friendship that helps keep them going.
• In helping Madame Musette, Fern and Newt (and readers) get a look at the process of raising monarch butterflies, from collecting and storing the eggs to the caterpillar phase, the chrysalis and finally the hatching of the butterfly.
• The expressive illustrations of Catarina Oliveira capture the humor and action of the story, and the relationships between characters, who are from a variety of diverse backgrounds.
• Mireille Messier is a well-established author who has written over thirty picture books and chapter books, both in French and English.