Book-Talk : Solimar, by Pam Muñoz Ryan

If you like adventure stories that feature resourceful princesses, Solimar, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, is a book you’ll want to read. For my video book review, I dressed up as a princess to honor the protagonist, who is the princess of a fictional kingdom: San Gregorio, in Mexico. Princess Solimar’s kingdom is home to a forest that’s a migration stop for Monarch butterflies. Wanting to sit with the butterflies when they arrive in the forest, Solimar is caught up in a magical experience: she has been chosen to be protector of young and weak butterflies that cannot survive on her own, and, while she serves as protector to the young butterflies, Solimar will be able to predict the near future.