Getting a child interested in books and reading at a young age can truly change their lives. Yet, so many kids across West Michigan have little to no access to books outside of school, with many not ...

Last year the non-profit, Giving Tree Books, embarked on its mission to promote children's literacy and published its first book, "Tasha Goes to Puppy School." Now one year later, Giving Tree Books is ...

I’m a lover of nature, especially trees. I’m always on the lookout for new books about trees and I’ve just discovered two very interesting ones. "Treekeepers: The Race for a Forested Future" by Lauren ...

What if the Giving Tree said "no" to the boy? Thousands of adults online are resonating with alternate endings to classic children’s books that may not have aged well in light of modern-day gentle ...

Once upon a time, there was an 87½-foot tall white pine tree that stood between two houses on Ronalds Street in Iowa City. That tree, which already leaned a bit toward the home of Joe and Julia ...

Amy Stewart was fully prepared to geek out, as plant nerds are known to do, when she began researching her latest book: “The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession.” But as she dove into the ...

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“What trees do in their own quiet way is allow us to think about scale,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg in the introduction to “Wise Trees” (Abrams, $40). “In our world, we’re dwarfed, outlasted, even ...