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Every Tree Has A Story
This visually stunning book is an exploration of unique trees—from the tallest Sequoia in California, to a very special forest in India, to a lone Acacia in the Sahara desert—offering a window into different cultures around the world.
Spectacular art enhances twenty fascinating stories about unique species, traditions, and the people who both nurture and destroy different trees from every corner of the world. This beautiful book improbably tells the story of women's equality in India; endangered species in the Seychelle Islands; and the green belt movement in Kenya—among other true tales of the tallest, broadest, most interesting, significant trees on every continent.
This is the perfect book of bedtime stories for nature lovers.
Spectacular art enhances twenty fascinating stories about unique species, traditions, and the people who both nurture and destroy different trees from every corner of the world. This beautiful book improbably tells the story of women's equality in India; endangered species in the Seychelle Islands; and the green belt movement in Kenya—among other true tales of the tallest, broadest, most interesting, significant trees on every continent.
This is the perfect book of bedtime stories for nature lovers.
48 pages, Hardcover
Published December 17, 2019
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August 27, 2020
A big bold visual delight. Large picture book format that features not only a tree, but a community and backstory to the life of that tree.
Each double page has a featured 'tree'. Save Luna! outlines the desperate campaign by one young woman to save a very old tree - it parallels a storyline in Richard Powers The Overstory.
The dedication reads: Did you know that trees talk? They do! They speak to each other and will talk to you too, if you listen. (further echoes of Richard Powers' book theme)
A homage to trees ideal for big and little people.
Each double page has a featured 'tree'. Save Luna! outlines the desperate campaign by one young woman to save a very old tree - it parallels a storyline in Richard Powers The Overstory.
The dedication reads: Did you know that trees talk? They do! They speak to each other and will talk to you too, if you listen. (further echoes of Richard Powers' book theme)
A homage to trees ideal for big and little people.
September 13, 2022
Questo libro merita pienamente 5 stelle .
Ho adorato le sue piccole storie appassionanti.
Gli alberi vanno sempre protetti utilizzando al meglio le loro risorse senza disturbarlo.
Tutti noi dovremmo capire quanto gli alberi siano così importanti e magnifici .
Questo dovrebbe essere l'insegnamento che deve trasmettere a ognuno che a letto o che leggerà questo libro 📖
Ho adorato le sue piccole storie appassionanti.
Gli alberi vanno sempre protetti utilizzando al meglio le loro risorse senza disturbarlo.
Tutti noi dovremmo capire quanto gli alberi siano così importanti e magnifici .
Questo dovrebbe essere l'insegnamento che deve trasmettere a ognuno che a letto o che leggerà questo libro 📖
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December 20, 2022
Très beau livre, les dessins sont sublimes
May 6, 2024
Lovely, informative, hopeful, and tragic all at once.
October 23, 2023
Interessantissime le storie e meravigliose le illustrazioni. Un libro perfetto sotto ogni punto di vista, scelta della carta compresa. Pubblicare questo libro è stato un capolavoro da parte della Gallucci.
March 20, 2023
Every Tree Has a Story has just over 40 pages containing about 20 stories about trees around the world, as well as the people who nurtured them, tried to save them, or destroyed them. The intricately patterned illustrations spread across all the pages and are a pleasing, sometimes playful, accompaniment to the stories. And although I call the entries “stories,” they are relayed in a straightforward style and are quite brief, no more than a quarter or so of the page. The book itself is a little taller and wider than the average hardcover book, but the layout allows enough space for the larger type, so that coupled with the straightforward entries allows for quick, easy reading — with maybe many pauses to admire the illustrations.
The book is packed with many interesting facts about trees and the people associated with them. Some that stood out to me include Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in a tree for two years, without ever touching the ground, to protect it from a lumbar company that wanted to cut it down. The tree, Luna, located near Stafford, California, was over 1,000 years old. And there’s also Sam Van Aken, an artist, who managed to create the Tree of 40 Fruit (and varieties of it), which is an actual tree that bears a variety of fruits (plums, cherries, apricots) all at once. That sounds amazing, and I’d love to see it in bloom. The pictures are beautiful.
I also learned about a village in Piplantri, India, that began a practice that improved women’s rights there. After losing his daughter in 2006, the village chief began a practice of celebrating the birth of girls by planting 111 trees and contributing money to save for the girls’ future. He also ruled that girls aren’t allowed to marry before age 18 so they could instead focus on their education, and the many trees the village planted resulted in a source of income for the village women as well (I cut much to summarize this. The way this came about is interesting and worth reading)...
Full review on Zezee with Books.
OVERALL: ★★★★★
Of course, I gave it 5 stars and now consider it a favorite. Sure, it’s for kids, but teens and adults can enjoy and learn much from it too. So I HIGHLY recommend and hope you will pick it up.
The book is packed with many interesting facts about trees and the people associated with them. Some that stood out to me include Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in a tree for two years, without ever touching the ground, to protect it from a lumbar company that wanted to cut it down. The tree, Luna, located near Stafford, California, was over 1,000 years old. And there’s also Sam Van Aken, an artist, who managed to create the Tree of 40 Fruit (and varieties of it), which is an actual tree that bears a variety of fruits (plums, cherries, apricots) all at once. That sounds amazing, and I’d love to see it in bloom. The pictures are beautiful.
I also learned about a village in Piplantri, India, that began a practice that improved women’s rights there. After losing his daughter in 2006, the village chief began a practice of celebrating the birth of girls by planting 111 trees and contributing money to save for the girls’ future. He also ruled that girls aren’t allowed to marry before age 18 so they could instead focus on their education, and the many trees the village planted resulted in a source of income for the village women as well (I cut much to summarize this. The way this came about is interesting and worth reading)...
Full review on Zezee with Books.
OVERALL: ★★★★★
Of course, I gave it 5 stars and now consider it a favorite. Sure, it’s for kids, but teens and adults can enjoy and learn much from it too. So I HIGHLY recommend and hope you will pick it up.
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