I am Tree Rex!

by Mo Davey

Overview

A character-driven dinosaur story about protecting the environment, one tree at a time. 

Rex loves counting and hugging every one of his twenty-one trees. So, he is absolutely heartbroken when one of his trees goes missing? Where could it be? Who could have taken it? Rex isn’t the only one who wants to know. A little bird who lost her home comes to him for help. Together, and with a group of feathered friends, they hatch a plan to scare away the tree takers once and for all. 

Tree Rex and his friends will inspire readers to care for the trees around them and protect them with all their might, in this hopeful story of environmental activism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781922610799
Publisher:	Berbay Publishing
Publication date:	03/04/2025
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	9.84(w) x 9.84(h) x (d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Mo loves forests just like Tree Rex. She thinks this is because she has always lived by the beach on the tiny island of Jersey where she was born and on the huge island called Australia where she lives now. I am Tree Rex! is her debut picture book.

Editorial Reviews

2025-05-06
A tree-hugging dinosaur adopts a leafy disguise to scare off woodcutters in this engagingly bonkers eco-centric episode.

Rex is shocked when his daily tally of the 21 trees outside his rocky house (count them!) comes up one short; he gets teary when a small, displaced bird shows up at his door and explains that the tree was cut down. Continued sounds of chopping and ever-shorter tree counts—plus the arrival of a whole flock of newly homeless birds—at last lead to Rex’s desperate ploy of dressing in brown beneath a crown of leaves and roaring out the titular declaration. Davey does an artful job of toning down the level of conflict for younger or more sensitive audiences; not only do Rex and the diminutive twig-waving avian supporters at his back form distinctly nonthreatening presences even at their most defiant, but the “tree takers,” entirely unseen in the simply drawn cartoon illustrations, are obliquely represented by glimpses of stumps, the occasional axe, and a distant tractor beating a hasty retreat. The message that it’s important to protect trees comes through loud and clear, however, underscored by closing views of Rex and the birds planting seeds for a new forest.

A hug-worthy call to action, delivered with a wink.(Picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews