Lyons Regional Library

Provides readers with interesting facts about trees and introduces the concept of forest ecology. Includes glossary.

A family discusses the origins of the Christmas tree as it decorates its own.

"A lyrical and informational nonfiction picture book that tells the story of trees and the hidden ecosystems they create"--

Follows the story of a single tree through the changing of the seasons from fall to winter, as people, animals, and vehicles pass in front of the tree, celebrating holidays, playing in the leaves, and building nests. Includes blended words.

"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...