Preus, Margi.
Summary: The 14 trees in this book have earned the title "Celebritrees" for their global fame and significance. Both in fact and in legend, these fascinating trees remind us not only how much pleasure trees bring, but what they can tell us about history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 582.16 PreKnowles, Laura
Summary: "How can something so small grow into a tree, which is such an incredibly big thing to be? Journey through the seasons and years to watch as a single seed transforms into a mighty tree, and spot all the creatures that make it their home"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Words & PIctures 2017
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Summary: "Trees are the tallest living things on Earth. But how do they grow to be so tall? Science writer Rebecca E. Hirsch presents a poetic introduction to the tree life cycle in Rise to the Sky. Accompanied by Mia Posada's detailed collage illustrations, this book features the tallest tree species from around the world, including the coast redwood, the Sitka spruce, and the giant sequoia." --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 582.16 HIRDebbink, Andrea
Summary: This field guide highlights 100 trees found throughout the world. Readers will gain a greater understanding about the appearance of each tree and will be able to identify these plants after seeing the vivid photographs and useful labels within the book. Features include a helpful introduction to the topic, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Reference, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 582 DEBCopies Available at Peninsula
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Fulford, Jason
Summary: Each clear acetate page features a single element in the leaf pile, though some are not leaves at all! As readers turn the pages, the leaf pile is deconstructed piece by piece on the right side, and reconstructed on the left. Younger readers will enjoy the seek-and-find aspect of the hidden objects, while older readers might experiment by adding their own images between the pages. A key at the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Limited 2018
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Summary: Long ago in Germany, an old woman cleans her house and decorates her Christmas tree, hoping that this year she will witness some special Christmas Eve magic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC CLIPourquié, Bernadette
Summary: Have you ever heard of the Strangler Tree? The Bubblegum Tree? The Upside-Down Tree? How about trees with horns, bottles, sausages, crowns, and ones that walk or even explode? Crazy, maybe, but true. Find out more about these, and many others, in this colorfully illustrated collection of the most bizarre--but real--trees from around the world, once again reminding us that the art of nature is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2016
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Summary: "As he works with his young granddaughter to nurture a potted sapling, a Latino landscaper shares his love and admiration of trees. From the extraordinary rainbow gum tree to the mighty, towering redwood, each of the thirteen specimens he tells of is a miracle of the natural world--and some are strange beyond the wildest imagining. Brimming with exuberance and color, this ode to trees of the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG DELLawlor, Laurie
Summary: "After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWGreen, Jen
Summary: Provides readers with interesting facts about trees and introduces the concept of forest ecology. Includes glossary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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Summary: In rhyming text, a classroom of children watches the tree they planted, and the birds and animals that make their homes in it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCMTarpley, Todd
Summary: "Dr. Seuss's Lorax explains how trees help clean the air we breath, and the steps required to successfully plant a tree"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green TarpleySummary: In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: ""Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green ... Is this the city you know?" This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest, starting with a bird's-eye view of the tree canopy, then swooping down to street level, digging deep into the ground, then moving up through a tree's trunk, back into the leaves and branches. It discusses the problems that city trees face such as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2020
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Summary: Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina, but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The dead-pan narration in this debut picture book delivers a perfect child-like vision with humor and panache, depicted in luminous detail. A little boy shows what happens when he drops larger and larger objects, both in terms of size and imagination, down a mysterious hole that grows throughout the year in his garden. But what happens in December?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STEValentini, Cristiana
Summary: "A moving tale of love, fear, and the courage of letting go. Beyond the hill where the tree lives, lies Who Knows Where. Every year when the wind blows, the tree's seeds sail to this mysterious place--until the day an especially tiny seed decides to remain on its branch. At first, the tree feels the seed should leave. If it doesn't, it will never grow roots of its own. But the tree also feels...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2020
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Summary: The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLHoráček, Petr.
Summary: Suzy Goose tries again and again to get a star for the Christmas tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HORYuly, Toni
Summary: A curious child wonders if tiny trees dream of being big, if the tallest trees get lonely, and what part is the heart of a tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YULGehl, Laura
Summary: "The bond between two trees, Apple and Magnolia, takes center stage in this picture book that explores the power of unlikely friendships and that includes an author's note that further explores how trees communicate"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flyaway Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PGApplegate, Katherine
Summary: An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD APPBranford, Anna
Summary: Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014