Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community
A classroom of children embarks on a quest to grow new trees from the clippings of a fallen willow tree and to rewild their schoolyard in this lyrical picture book loosely based on a true story.

The old willow tree has stood in the schoolyard for as long as anyone can remember. It’s a gathering place, a run-laps-around place, a dream-under place. Until one blustery night when a storm blows it over.

Brokenhearted over the loss of their beloved tree, the students come up with a wonderfully wild idea: to grow new willows! They gather branches and trim clippings, and before long, many new trees begin to take root. But their wonderfully wild ideas don’t stop there. With the help of their community, can the class transform their entire schoolyard?
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Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community
A classroom of children embarks on a quest to grow new trees from the clippings of a fallen willow tree and to rewild their schoolyard in this lyrical picture book loosely based on a true story.

The old willow tree has stood in the schoolyard for as long as anyone can remember. It’s a gathering place, a run-laps-around place, a dream-under place. Until one blustery night when a storm blows it over.

Brokenhearted over the loss of their beloved tree, the students come up with a wonderfully wild idea: to grow new willows! They gather branches and trim clippings, and before long, many new trees begin to take root. But their wonderfully wild ideas don’t stop there. With the help of their community, can the class transform their entire schoolyard?
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Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community

Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community

Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community

Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community

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A classroom of children embarks on a quest to grow new trees from the clippings of a fallen willow tree and to rewild their schoolyard in this lyrical picture book loosely based on a true story.

The old willow tree has stood in the schoolyard for as long as anyone can remember. It’s a gathering place, a run-laps-around place, a dream-under place. Until one blustery night when a storm blows it over.

Brokenhearted over the loss of their beloved tree, the students come up with a wonderfully wild idea: to grow new willows! They gather branches and trim clippings, and before long, many new trees begin to take root. But their wonderfully wild ideas don’t stop there. With the help of their community, can the class transform their entire schoolyard?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781665958165
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Publication date: 05/06/2025
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 10.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.14(d)
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jessica Stremer is a mom and military spouse with a bachelor’s degree in biology. She combines her love of science and writing to create books that inspire kids to explore the world around them and beyond. She is the author of the nonfiction picture books Great Carrier Reef and Lights Out. When not writing, Jessica loves spending time with her family traveling, hiking, and camping.

Josée Masse is an author and illustrator from Montreal. She enjoys spending time drawing and looking out the window at the birds eating their food and the squirrels stealing it! Her favorite things to illustrate are plants, forests, and magical scenes. Josée is the author-illustrator of Le jardin de madame Héléna, published in her native French, and she is the illustrator of numerous picture books, including Wonderfully Wild, the bestselling The Care and Keeping of You volumes one and two, and the critically acclaimed books of “reverso poems,” Mirror Mirror and Follow, Follow.
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