Now in paperback, this book can be enjoyed by children in classrooms everywhere.ĭiane Muldrow, an editorial director at Golden Books, has written dozens of children s books. With a nod to Kenya’s successful Green Belt Movement, Diane Muldrow’s elegant text celebrates the life and hope that every tree-from Paris to Brooklyn to Tokyo-brings to our planet. while trees all over the world help clean the air, enrich the soil, and give fruit and shade. As the trees flourish, so do the families. Books shes illustrated include What Color is Caesar? by Maxine Kumin and Making a Friend by Tammi Sauer.In this simple poem with environmental themes, illustrated by award-winning artist Bob Staake, two young families in two very different parts of the world each plant a tree. It was then she realized she should be illustrating books for children. After a few years chipping away at stone, she moved to America where she began painting funny animal pictures to make into greetings cards. She studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and after graduating spent the next three years working as an apprentice stonemason high up on Nottinghams historic buildings. Animals were always a favorite subject, and as a child she copied them obsessively from wildlife books and encyclopaedias. Learn more about Kate and her work at or on Twitter Alison Friend has loved painting and drawing for as long as she can remember. Kate lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York, with her husband. She is also the author of I Stink!, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, and Im Mighty! with her husband, noted illustrator Jim McMullan the series has since been turned into the Amazon Prime show The Stinky and Dirty Show.

About the Author Kate McMullan is the author of many books for young readers, including How Do You Take a Bath? and How Do You Go To Sleep? with Sydney Hanson. Beloved childrens book creator Kate McMullan has crafted a story that will encourage kids to cultivate a love of nature as they observe the world living inside their backyards. Within this tree is an entire ecosystem, all created by the class who planted it. There is no shortage of action to observe in its branches: a robin protecting her eggs from a squirrel and her kits, a lizard stalking a spider, and a hawk swirling around overhead. A class plants a tree in the playground, and together, they watch it grow. Book Synopsis Learn about all of the animals that coexist in just one tree that a classroom planted in this fun, informative, cumulative picture book in the tradition of This is the House That Jack Built.

About the Book In rhyming text, a classroom of children watches the tree they planted, and the birds and animals that make their homes in it.

We Planted a Tree by Diane Muldrow