Zsako, Balint
Summary: Bunny and Tree first meet when the tree observes a ferocious wolf threatening the bunny and comes to its protection. From that moment on, there is a bond of trust between the two, which flowers not only into friendship, but amazingly, into a road trip adventure, when Bunny, who's looking for his rabbit friends, convinces Tree that it's time to uproot and see the world. Compelled by sympathy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2023
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Limited 2018
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Summary: "After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWBoss, Shira
Summary: "A newly planted sidewalk tree in the city transforms the neighborhood as residents nurture it through the seasons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOSKelly, Erin Entrada
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...
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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?
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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...
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLYuly, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YULApplegate, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JBR RED BRAPope, Elodie
Summary: These pint-sized books talk about everday things in an extraordinary way. Celebrate your baby's fascination with the little things in his orher big world as you read them together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2017
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Summary: A tree's life story is told from its beginnings as a seed to its survival in the wilderness until it finally falls, but continues its life as a log, an animal habitat, and finally decomposes to provide nutrition for future trees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2024
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Summary: A friendless girl who is teased for being different runs away from her village in tears and finds herself having a conversation with a very unusual tree, who tells a story of how his differences not only saved his life, they helped him see that he is not so very different after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLGarbutt, Loretta
Summary: "When Mother Pin Oak, the hub tree of a deciduous forest wakes to crisp, spring air and cannot seem to stir her Little Pin Oak growing beside her, she seeks help from other members her forest community. As the rest of the forest slowly awakens, they come to Little Pin's aid: a busy squirrel carries Mother Pin's message through the forest; a vole digs tunnels in the soil, enabling nutrients to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2024
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Summary: A little fable about how cutting down one tree can negatively affect the different forms of life that use the tree for their needs and protection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LAYCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "Xenia is new to Ravens Pass and reluctantly she sets out to explore the forest behind her house with the strange girl, Zephyr--but the ancient trees are hungry, and in order to survive Xenia must make a deal with the forest--and become a hunter for the trees"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLLuyken, Corinna
Summary: Through text and illustrations of children reveling in nature, explores the various ways we as human beings are strong, creative, and connected to others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUYCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUYTillman, Nancy
Summary: Wishes are a magical part of childhood. Whether we wish on stars or blow out candles on a cake, our dreams matter. Nancy Tillman captures the wonder of wishes as only she can, with love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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Summary: "A modern-day response to 'The Giving Tree,' this lyrical picture book shows how family love is passed down from generation to generation"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAMBecker, Aaron
Summary: "In an alternate past--or possible future--a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learn to harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to survive and thrive. The growing population becomes ever more industrious and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BECHesselberth, Joyce
Summary: A young girl named Beatrice imagines herself as a tree and envisions how she would interact with her natural surroundings and change throughout the seasons. Includes factual information on trees and photosynthesis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESVignocchi, Chiara
Summary: It all begins with one tasty nut, hanging on the highest branch of a tree. A little Mouse looks at it longingly - he wants to eat it, so very much. But how can he get it down? By shaking the tree, of course! Can you, the reader, help him? Shake the tree - a little to the right (shake) ... and a little to the left (shake shake). But - uh-oh - something else is falling from the tree, and it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VIGHale, Shannon.
Summary: When her beloved forest no longer gives her comfort and her brother Razo invites Rinna to the city to be one of Queen Ani's waiting women, she happily accepts, only to discover her own strength comes from places both expected and unexpected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009