{"product_id":"the-witness-trees-historic-moments-and-the-trees-who-watched-them-happen-includes-a-map-to-over-20-trees-you-can-visit-today-9781638191254","title":"The Witness Trees: Historic Moments and the Trees Who Watched Them Happen: Includes a Map to Over 20 Trees You Can Visit Today","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e★ \"A gallery of stately trees around the world associated with times and events both historic and prehistoric....Moving and, as a way of connecting today's readers to significant moments of the past, effective.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 2024 Notable Social Studies Trade Book (NCSS-CBC)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominee, 2024-2025 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Awards (MASL), Picture Book Category\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominee, 2025 Utah Beehive Awards (CLAU), Informational Category \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor generations, trees have silently witnessed history's most pivotal moments. Here are their stories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the sweep of wind over grass, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003enear the pulse of rivers, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewe stand, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003emonuments of bark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand age-curled green.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbove, an avalanche of stars.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBelow, the ocean of earth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWithin, the uncounted lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebirthed, bloomed, and plucked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom the gardens we tend.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe survive.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe remember.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe witness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn evocative verse and stunning artwork, \u003ci\u003eWitness Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the world's most enduring witnesses: the trees. From the Flower of Kent apple tree still standing in Sir Isaac Newton's yard, to the English oak given to Jesse Owens after facing down Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, to the California redwood saved from destruction by July Butterfly Hill, to the Callery pear tree still miraculously alive after the World Trade Towers fell, \u003ci\u003eWitness Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving tribute to the world's most famous trees, many of which still need humanity's protection. Be moved, be inspired, be amazed by the quiet, reverberating voices of nature's sentinels: the witness trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor each tree depicted, there is information about that tree and the events it witnessed. 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The trees have no need for such order, anchored solidly into the earth, and the somber tone and poetic text have an aloof thoughtfulness--not coldlyemotionless but distant enough to see an arc of wonder in the progress of theworld.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Our roots rundeep--\/ they grip history, \/ a restless forever, ' open the incantatoryfirst-person plural lines propelling this tribute....landscape illustrationscomfortably portray historical and geographical scenes....By piling on examples, Van Cleave impresses upon readers trees' enduring power.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyan Van Cleave \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of dozens of books for both children and adults. 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