The Universe Is a Tree

by Laura Filippucci

Overview

Trees are teachers, healers, protectors, creators. They keep secrets. They bring peace. This rich anthology of stories, proverbs, and poems about trees from around the world reveals that a tree's roots not only go down deep into the earth, but its branches also reach up and out into the universe, connecting us all, across time and space. May we peer through the forests of our imaginations to see the beauty and experience the awe that still arches over our world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568463049
Publisher:	The Creative Company
Publication date:	08/21/2018
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.75(w) x 11.25(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

About the Author

A native of Milan, Italy, Laura Filippucci studied illustration at the Istituto Europeo di Design in her hometown and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1992, she received a UNICEF Award at the 25th Illustrators Exhibition of the Bologna Children's Book Fair. She lives in Milan with her husband, also an illustrator, and their three children.

Editorial Reviews

11/19/2018
This thoughtful celebration of trees explores their mythological, biological, and spiritual significance, devoting each page to an idea and a tree species that supports it (and sharing a quotation for and information about each). Yew trees serve as “gates to the beyond” in Norse stories of Yggdrasil, a tree with roots that “ to different realms.” Trees can also be “givers”—the baobab “provides food, medicine, water, and precious shade”—while the olive tree has long represented wisdom and peace. In Filippucci’s ornate watercolor-and-ink art, the trees are cavernous, imposing, and divine (the face of the Buddha peers from the gnarled trunk of the banyan tree), emphasizing how they have nurtured myths, legends, and the well-being of humans and animals throughout time. Ages 12–up. (Sept.)

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