Little Guides to Nature: Hello Trees

By Author / Illustrator

Nina Chakrabarti

Genre

Environment & Nature

Age range(s)

Publisher

Laurence King Publishing

ISBN

9781510230477

Format

Hardback

Published

14-09-2023

Synopsis

Get outside and explore the magnificent world of trees with this beautifully illustrated pocket guide. Witness a tree's growth from seed to sapling and discover how trees come together to support each other in forests in this beautiful pocket guide to nature. Illustrated gallery-style pages show children how to identify a tree from its seeds, take a closer look leaf function and shape and highlights some of the oldest and the tallest trees from around the world.

A book to inspire budding naturalists aged six and up, Hello Trees also includes creative off-the-page activities for children to try, including growing a tree from an avocado seed and creating amazing art by painting leaves and bark rubbing.

Be inspired to go outdoors and get up close with nature with this brand-new series from internationally bestselling illustrator Nina Chakrabarti. Also in this series: Hello Fungi, Hello Bugs and Hello Fossils and Shells.

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Reviews

Jane

Glance at the common features of all four books in this series and the librarian/teacher/book-buying parent will soon be persuaded to invest: helpful hardback format suited to taking outdoors; as is their fit into a rucksack pocket; quality paper for durability; Stylish and colourful illustrations; a good selection of facts; inclusion of practical activities which children could easily do, e.g. making a leaf or spore print, building a bug hotel, and creating trace fossils; quotes from literature, poetry or celebrities at the beginning and, at the end, bullet-pointed encouragement to be kind to these natural phenomena.

These books tell children what to look out for and help them to understand a little more about what they might find under a stone, in the garden, on the beach or out in the woods or park. Thus equipped, they could soon become astute and informed observers of nature, whether already very keen or just inquisitive. So, schools/parents: get some copies (duplicate, if possible) for your library, forest school, classrooms and bored-in-the-holiday pile.

I particularly liked the 'What is a Tree?' section in Little Guides to Nature: Hello Trees, as well as the simple explanation of why leaves change colour and the idea of saving fruit pips and stones to plant, and will enjoy sharing the examples of 'smelly trees' with the children.

48 pages / Reviewed by Jane Rew, school librarian