{"id":39196,"date":"2024-03-11T17:56:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=39196"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:56:53","slug":"review-of-the-wisdom-of-trees-by-lita-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=39196","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Wisdom of Trees, by Lita Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/wisdom_of_trees_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/wisdom_of_trees_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39305\" \/><\/a><em>The Wisdom of Trees<\/p>\n<p>How Trees Work Together to Form a Natural Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Lita Judge<\/p>\n<p>Roaring Brook Press, 2021.  48 pages.<br \/>\nReview written March 23, 2021, from a library book<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p><em>The Wisdom of Trees<\/em> brings to a child\u2019s level information about how trees communicate and help one another, which I learned in the book for adults, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/hidden_life_of_trees.html\">The Hidden Life of Trees<\/a><\/em>, by Peter Wohlleben.  It\u2019s listed as a resource in the back.<\/p>\n<p>On each spread this book has a poem in the voice of trees, a painting from an actual forest, and a sidebar explaining the concept expressed in the poem.  An Author\u2019s Note at the back explains the location for each painting.<\/p>\n<p>These poems cover concepts like trees telling each other about insects or predators and responding with chemicals to drive them away, trees communicating via fungi, trees resting in the winter, and trees nurturing young saplings.<\/p>\n<p>This recent discovery that trees communicate and nurture one another is one that will delight children, as it did me when I learned about it.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an example poem about the way the roots of elder trees live on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>We Are the Ghosts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My limbs and needles are gone,<br \/>\nand the warm body of a newborn deer<br \/>\ncomes to rest within the ghost of my great trunk<br \/>\nthat once touched the sky.<br \/>\nBut underneath the soft litter<br \/>\nof fallen needles and dark soil, I still live,<br \/>\nsurrounded by my kingdom<br \/>\nwith their willingness to give.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A lovely book that will reward repeated rereadings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/litajudge.me\/\">litajudge.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/mackids\/\">mackids.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1250237076\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n<p>*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisdom of Trees How Trees Work Together to Form a Natural Kingdom by Lita Judge Roaring Brook Press, 2021. 48 pages. Review written March 23, 2021, from a library book Starred Review The Wisdom of Trees brings to a child\u2019s level information about how trees communicate and help one another, which I learned in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-science","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43440,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39196\/revisions\/43440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}