"A beautiful, stirring love letter to nature."
With its refrain of ‘Leave the trees, please’, there’s a dreamlike quality to this picture book and a sense of passionate intensity, both perfectly captured in Melissa Castrillon’s beautiful illustrations. Benjamin Zephaniah’s text is short, conversational but urgent, exhorting us not just to protect the trees but to appreciate their majesty and the crucial role they play in all our lives.
A rich, colour-saturated palette of reds, browns and greens depicts trees in all their glory, with children and adults, birds and insects sheltered under their boughs and among their roots.
Benjamin Zephaniah died too early, but his poetry keeps his voice loud and clear, this book in particular reflecting so clearly his love of nature and belief that all living things on Earth deserve equal protection and should live in harmony.
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