My Towering Tree
By (Author) Janna Matthies
Illustrated by Ashley Wolff
Simon & Schuster
Beach Lane Books
2nd September 2024
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief
Hardback
32
Width 254mm, Height 254mm, Spine 10mm
463g
Discover all the joyful moments and adventures waiting right outside your door in this mindful rhyming picture book celebration of backyard nature.
In my yards a towering tree. It reaches high to cover me. I lie beneath the towering tree and think my thoughts, and breathe, and be.
There is much to do and so much to see beneath the branches of a towering tree! Step inside a leafy backyard world where squirrels are zipping, bees are buzzing, the sun is shining, and a curious, creative child is noticing and absorbing it all. This tribute to the wonderful worlds that exist in a backyard invites readers to stop, take a breath, and appreciate the natural world around them.
Janna Matthies is a picture book author and early elementary music teacher in Indianapolis. Her books includeHere We Come!;Gods Always Loving You;Two Is Enough, which made the 2016 Bank Street list andNew York Times Book Review;The Goodbye Cancer Garden;Peter, the Knight with Asthma; andMonster Trucks. Janna is a longtime volunteer with the Indiana SCBWI andprovides editorial services to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for picture books supporting their Teddy Bear Concert Series. When shes not writing or making music, Janna can be found digging in the garden, swimming laps, walking Juneau the howling Husky, or keeping up with her husband and three mostly-grown kids.
Ashley Wolff lives in Vermont and is the author and illustrator of more than sixty books for children, including the modern classic Miss Bindergarten series by Joseph Slate, and her own celebratedOnly the Cat Saw;Where, Oh Where, Is Baby Bear;Baby Bear Counts One; andBaby Bear Sees Blue. Visit her at AshleyWolff.com.