A Tree is Nice Best of 21

A Tree is Nice Best of 21Winner of the 1957 Randolph Caldecott Medal A radiant and buoyant picture book. The Horn Book A Tree Is Nice is a classic tale about the beauty of the everyday world. "Simont's watercolors perfectly complement the poetic simplicity of the text, allowing the reader room to engage in his or her own imaginative embroiderings about trees" (Children's Books and Their Creators). Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up

all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is

In the #1 New York Times bestseller The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

The other secretly passes for white

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Sy fell under the hawk’s magnetic spell

is the only person who seems glad she’s there

With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy

adjustable wings

Contributors include New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award winner Elizabeth Acevedo

a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable

the clouds clear and his rainbow returns--and if he ever feels sad again

Melinda’s unforgettable narrative is backed by startling data as she presents the issues that most need our attention―from child marriage to lack of access to contraceptives to gender inequity in the workplace