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- Trees stand tall / by Mangal, Mélina.; Lim, Stella.;
- "Focusing on trees in the summertime, this book shows children what we can learn from nature about being rooted in family and our sense of sight"--
- Subjects: Board books.; Trees; Nature;
- The genius of trees : how they mastered the elements and shaped the world / by Rix, Harriet,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."A mind-expanding exploration of how trees learned to shape our world by manipulating the elements, other species, and even humankind, possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined. For a supposedly stationary life form, trees have demonstrated an astonishing mastery over the environment around them. They've been using fire since prehistoric times. Some tree species have gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure their fruits reach large primates, who can spread their seeds over vast distances, while poisoning smaller and less useful mammals. Others can split solid rock and create fertile ground in barren landscapes, effectively building entire ecosystems from scratch. In The Genius of Trees, tree scientist Harriet Rix reveals the inventive ways trees sculpt their environment and explains the science of how they achieve these incredible feats. Taking us on an awe-inspiring journey through deep history and across the globe, Rix restores trees to their rightful position not as victims of our negligence, but as ingenious, stunningly inventive agents in a grand ecological narrative. Trees manipulate fundamental elements, other species, and even humankind to achieve their ends, as seen with oaks in Devon, UK, shaping ecosystems through root networks and fungi, those in Amedi, Iraq that can change sex as they get to a certain age, the laurel rainforests of the Canary Islands regulating water cycles, and metasequoias in California influencing microclimates. A recent big surprise has shown that trees have an even greater role in preventing global warming than we thought: trees, which were thought to produce methane, actually consume it. We share one world with trees and one need for survival. This eye-opening journey into the inner lives of nature's most powerful plant is a profoundly new and original way of understanding both the miracles trees perform and the glories of our natural world"--
- Subjects: Trees; Trees; Trees;
- Magic tree house. [sound recording] / by Osborne, Mary Pope,author,narrator.; Listening Library,publisher.;
- Read by the author.
- Subjects: Children's stories.; Children's audiobooks.; Magic; Tree houses; Time travel;
- The magnificent tree / by Bland, Nick,1973-; King, Stephen Michael.;
- Bonny and Pop are bursting with ideas for inventions and projects. When they agree that they need to invent something that will keep the beautiful birds from flying away, each comes up with an idea for a tree.LSC
- Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Inventors; Birds; Trees;
- © 2013, c2012., Scholastic Canada,
- The curvy tree / by Colfer, Chris,1990-; Dorman, Brandon.;
- 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.LSC
- Subjects: Runaway children; Trees; Forests and forestry; Individuality; Self-acceptance;
- The Wild Pear Tree [videorecording]. by Demirkol, Dogu; Cemcir, Murat;
- Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir.Director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan.DVD.MWT rating: NR.Sinan, an aspiring writer, returns home after university, hoping to scrape together enough money to publish his first novel. He wanders the town encountering old flames and obstinate gatekeepers and finds his youthful ambition increasingly at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, Sinan grapples with the people and the place that has made him who he is.
- Subjects: Drama.; Foreign.;
- © 2019., Cinema Guild,
- Bees to trees : reading, writing, and reciting poems about nature / by Freese, Susan M.,1958-; Westberg, Jan.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.Introduces poetry reading, writing, and reciting. Includes poems about nature by various authors."PreK-3"--T.p. verso.LSC
- Subjects: Poetry; Children's poetry, American.; Nature in literature;
- © c2008., ABDO Pub.,
- Stewart's tree : a book for brothers and sisters when a baby dies shortly after birth / by Campbell, Cathy(Children's author);
- "Mum said Stewart wouldn't ever come home. But he would always be in their hearts." Ellen's new baby brother Stewart has been 'lost'. Ellen looks in all the cupboards for Stewart, and even in the washing machine - then her family help her understand that Stewart has died and isn't going to come back. Together they plant a tree for Stewart, so they will always have a place to remember him. A therapeutic children's book for explaining sibling loss to young children, colourfully illustrated to emphasise focusing on the happy memories of a lost child. The book ends with a guide to bereavement for children written by qualified clinicians.--Provided by publisher.Age 3+Pre-school, excluding K.LSC
- Subjects: Infants; Bereavement;
- Magic tree house. [sound recording] / by Osborne, Mary Pope.; Osborne, Mary Pope.Crazy day with cobras.Sound recording.; Osborne, Mary Pope.Dogs in the dead of night.Sound recording.; Osborne, Mary Pope.Abe Lincoln at last!Sound recording.; Osborne, Mary Pope.Perfect time for pandas.Sound recording.;
- A crazy day with cobras -- Dogs in the dead of night -- Abe Lincoln at last! -- A perfect time for pandas.Read by the author.LSC
- Subjects: Jack (Fictitious character : Osborne); Annie (Fictitious character : Osborne); Brothers and sisters; Time travel; Magic; Tree houses; Children's audiobooks.;
- © p2012., Random House Audio,
- The sour cherry tree / by Hrab, Naseem.; Kazemi, Nahid.;
- After the death of her beloved grandfather, a girl and her mom go to his house to take care of a few things, and memories of her grandfather provide the girl some comfort.LSC
- Subjects: Grandfathers; Grandparent and child; Reminiscing;
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