Including an explanation of phonics and an overview of the Read with Oxford stages, the guide also contains useful tips, ideas for games and activities, and answers to all your questions. It also explores the cultural impacts of tree loss, and shows the impact that these creatures have on our lives. Lost among the thick trees, which may owe something to the great yew forests of medieval Italy, but probably much more to the shady canopies of the mind, the poet makes his way down through the darkness into hell. Given Shafak’s affinity for the natural world, with whole pages of soaring, rich detail about songbirds or butterflies, the occasional cliched sentence was a surprise.

The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees

Great lives live on through real trees, too, such as the horse chestnut at Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam, which survived far longer than the young diarist, or the cherry tree planted in memory of Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London. A fierce advocate for equality and freedom of speech, her views have brought her into conflict with the increasingly repressive government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Quite simply a stunning work, this book depicts 144 detailed watercolours and descriptions of a wide range of different apples from Beauty of Bath to Egremont Russet.A useful book that covers all the most common trees and some rarities that are sold from nurseries and garden centres in the UK and also includes information about cultivation and size. By any standards, she has had a remarkable career: the recipient of numerous awards, her bestselling books translated into dozens of languages, her Ted talks watched by millions. Her parents have protected her from their past in Cyprus, and Ada doesn’t know her Cypriot family – “She’s a British child” – but the arrival of her maternal aunt, Meryem, unravels the truth. This was the first in-depth book I read about trees, and I’m still obsessing today about all the things I learned from it. I was struggling with a lot of anxiety and uncertainty, and I want to honour those negative emotions.

British Trees: A photographic guide to every common species

The Saint of Incipient Insanities, which came out in 2004, was the first novel she wrote in English. Gabriel Hemery’s recent revisiting, The New Sylva, brings Evelyn up to date and includes beautiful pencil sketches by Sarah Simblet.And while her new novel, The Island of Missing Trees – her first since the Booker-shortlisted 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World – is certainly political, its themes to do with violence and loss, it’s also a passionate love story, one of whose most important characters just happens to be – yes – a gentle and sagacious tree.

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One of the best modern tree identification books, this guide covers a wide variety of trees and has a simple key at the beginning to help you get started, as well as good identification detail.From the once giant white pines of New England to the orange groves of California, Rutkow outlines how trees were essential to the early years of colonialism, and how trees are an essential part of our cultural and literal history. Well, guess what — a lot of his characters are based on real-life people and their real-life experiences and discoveries. The book contains some lovely colourful drawings which will help you identify a range of trees and their seeds. Download our free Tree ID app for Android and iPhone to identify the UK's native and non-native trees.

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Read about the horror genre and its relationship to the forest, dig into novels that star nature or the landscape as main characters, or explore some fantastic eco-fiction reads. In Letters and Sounds, there are ‘sets’ within the Phases – so your child might not know all the sounds in every book within their Phase. By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago.

The Long, Long Life of Trees is written in praise of the physical beauty of trees and traces their cultural meanings.