An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...

Trees reach high into the sky. You can climb a tree, hang a swing on one of its limbs, or enjoy its juicy apples. On hot, sunny days, cows sleep in the tree's leafy shade, and families picnic under it. On cold, windy days, trees shelter your house. A tree is always nice to have around. Popular children's author Janice May Udry celebrates the beauty and joy found in the everyday world. With A Tree Is Nice, she captures the wonder of young children...

A child describes the growth of a maple tree from seed to sapling.

Various animals take turns shaking a tree in search of a tasty meal. It starts with Mouse who wants a nut so she shakes the tree a little to the right, and a little to the left. But it isn't the nut that falls from the tree, it's Fox who thinks that Mouse looks pretty tasty! Soon a warthog and then a bear come along with similar ideas. Little readers will enjoy the just-made-it escapes and the fun shaking-action that readers can do along with this...

Little Tree is very happy in the forest, where he is surrounded by other little trees and his leaves keep him cool in the heat of summer, but when autumn comes and the other trees drop their leaves, Little Tree cannot be pursuaded to let his go, even after they wither and turn brown.

A curious cub named Pip meets an evergreen tree that explains Christmas to him, and by celebrating the holiday together they create a new tradition.

In 1881, when their apple tree is felled by a storm just before Christmas, a young farm girl and her family discover that the tree was important to each of them for different reasons.

For Thanksgiving Day, the fourteen pigs in the Jambonneau family trim their trees to look like turkeys but wake up one morning to find they have all been stolen.