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Czajak, Paul

The Book Tree

32 pp. | Barefoot | September, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-78285-405-0 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-78285-440-1
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh. Arlo accidentally drops a book onto the mayor's head. The mayor retorts, "Books are dangerous...they act like seeds, which grow into ideas, and ideas turn into questions." Books get destroyed and the town suffers until Arlo's stories sprout a burgeoning book tree that inspires others to become book gardeners. The allegorical tale's striking mixed-media illustrations feature lots of books in many different languages.
Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty

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