Trees

Trees is a book of simple poems, each one celebrating a type of tree. Maples, aspens, oaks, palms, pussy willows, apple trees, red buds, spruses, dogwoods, sycamores, pines, willows, birches, sequoias—all these types of trees have a poem and an illustration devoted to them.

If you are a tree lover, as I am, or even if you are not (this book may make you one), you probably need to read Trees by Verlie Hutchens.

Here is a sample:

Aspens, tall and graceful,
dances on her tippy toes.
Her golden leaves like castanets
shimmer in the breeze.