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Title: The Tree Author:  Neal Layton Illustrator:  Neal Layton Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763689520 Audience: 2-5 years Summary: In only sixty words, Neal Layton tells the story of a small ecosystem: a tall tree, the animals which live happily on, in, and under it, and

Title:  Green Author/Illustrator:  Laura Vacarro Seeger Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Publication Date: 2012 ISBN: 9781596433977 Audience: 2-6 years Summary: This is a book showing seventeen shades of green.  That’s accurate but inadequate.  Enter the world of green-a tree, a

Title: A Leaf Can Be… Author: Laura Purdie Salas Illustrator: Violeta Dabija Publisher: Millbrook Press ISBN: 978-0-7613-6; 51795 Audience:  Ages 5 – 8 Summary: A leaf is a simple part of the plant but it offers an unlimited number of possibilities.  In this story, it can

Title: You are a Gift to the World Author: Laura Duksta Illustrator: Dona Turner Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2011 ISBN:  9781402219542 Audience: Ages 4 – 8 Summary:  The answer to the biggest question lays inside the heart. The question is what is the biggest gift in the

Name of Book:  Night Tree Author:  Eve Bunting Illustrator: Ted Rand Publisher: Voyager Books Harcourt Brace & Company ISBN: 978-0152001216 Audience:  Ages4-8 Summary:  On Christmas Eve, a family treks into the woods to trim an evergreen with edible decorations for the forest

Name of Book: All Things Bright and Beautiful Author:  Cecil F. Alexander; illus. Ashley Bryan Publisher: Atheneum ISBN: 978-1416989394 Audience: Ages 2-5 Summary:  Cut-paper collages depict scenes of people, animals, and nature that perfectly interpret this wonderful 19th c

Title: The Curious Garden Author: Peter Brown Illustrator: Peter Brown Publisher: Little, Brown, 2009 ISBN: 9780316015479 Audience: 4-8 years Summary:  There was once a city without gardens or trees or greenery, a dull and dreary city where everyone stayed inside.  Except young,

Name of Book: Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors Author: Joyce Sidman Illustrator: Pamela Zagarenski Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780547014944 Audience: Ages 2-5. Because this book is divided into 4 separate poems, for younger children only a portion of the

Name of Book:   The Baronet’s Song Author:  George McDonald, edited by Michael R. Phillips Illustrator:  Cover Art by Dan Thornberg Publisher:  Bethany House Publishers Audience:   Ages 12 and up Summary:  This is the story of a young boy, Gibbie Galbraith, unable to speak but

Name of Book:  All the World Author: Liz Garton Scanlon Illustrator: Marla Frazee Publisher: Beach Lane Books, 2009 Audience: Ages 4-8 Summary: A multicultural family with young children spends a summer day interacting with each other, their community and the land on which they