A field guide to trees around the world, each depicted by a full-color photograph with a caption that describes key features and points of differentiation.
A struggling cottonwood sapling becomes a landmark to travelers, a peace-medicine tree, and after its death in 1834, a yoke which is used on the trail to Santa Fe.
Studies the highly visible and diverse world of trees, flowers, and other green-and-growing things, with their distinct ways of reproduction, respiration, photosynthesis, and nourishment. Includes suggestions for projects and activities.