Butterfly Book: Author Joan Calder’s New Kids’ Book Airplanes in the Garden: Monarch Butterflies Take Flight

“I always wanted to write a children’s book,” said Joan Calder, manager of UCSB’s Greenhouse for Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology. So after watching monarch chrysalises - two of which she named Stanley and Sergio - develop into butterflies in her backyard, Calder combined her love of teaching and insects and wrote the tome Airplanes in the Garden: Monarch Butterflies Take Flight.