Meeting Trees

by Scott Russell Sanders

As a boy and his father walk in the woods near their home, they share what they know about the bark, leaves, and fruit of the different species they see

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Nature

32 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1997

About the author

Scott Russell Sanders is the award-winning author of A Private History of Awe, Hunting for Hope, A Conservationist Manifesto, Dancing in Dreamtime, and two dozen other books of fiction, personal narrative, and essays. His father came from a family of cotton farmers in Mississippi, his mother from an immigrant doctor’s family in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Tennessee and his school years in Ohio, Rhode Island, and Cambridge, England.

In his writing he is concerned with our place in nature, the practice of community, and the search for a spiritual path. He and his wife, Ruth, a biochemist, have reared two children in their hometown of Bloomington, in the hardwood hill country of southern Indiana. You can visit Scott at www.scottrussellsanders.com.

In August 2020, Counterpoint Press will publish his new collection of essays, The Way of Imagination, a reflection on healing and renewal in a time of climate disruption. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories inspired by photographs.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sorry, I'd probably like this more if I weren't also reading Sanders' essays, which have a very different tone (and a very different father than the one portrayed here and lauded in the author's note). I do like the theme of trees as 'friends & neighbors,' and I do like the basic identification guide. Illustrator Robert Hynes deserves more than half the credit for the appeal of the book, imo.

[Candance Doerr-Stevens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Father and son walk through the forest meeting different trees, taking note of their different structures and characteristics

Used: Lend from JC Library