April 12, 2007

Trees

wizard in a tree398.368 Hagened The Spirit of Trees: Science, Symbiosis, and Inspiration by Fred Hageneder
Quick Dewey lesson: 398 is folklore.

Now two book lists for Arbor Day.

A. Living Trees

  1. Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree
  2. The various trees in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings series see: Tolkein and his Trees
  3. Lloyd Alexander's The Wizard in the Tree
  4. So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane
  5. Tree in the Trail by Holling Clancy Holling
  6. An Elm Tree and 3 Sisters, Norma Sommerdorf
  7. and the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne

B. What Is That Tree?
You can bring a leaf in to the library and look through the books or you can do it the other way round, check out a book and walk it round to the trees.
  1. J 582.16 ARNOSKY Crinkleroot's guide to knowing the trees / by Jim Arnosky
  2. J 582.16 LYON A B Cedar : an alphabet of trees / by George Ella Lyon ; designed and illustrated by Tom Parker
  3. 582.16 PETRIDE A field guide to eastern trees : eastern United States and Canada, including the Midwest / George A. Petrides ; illustrated by Janet Wehr
  4. MD-R 582.16 LEAF Leaf key to common trees in Maryland
  5. 582.16 PETRIDE A field guide to trees and shrubs : northeastern and north-central United States and southeastern and south-central Canada / George A. Petrides ; illustrations by George A. Petrides and Roger Tory Peterson
  6. 582.16 PLOTNIK The urban tree book : an uncommon field guide for city and town / Arthur Plotnik ; in consultation with The Morton Arboretum ; illustrated by Mary H. Phelan.
  7. 582.16 S988 The tree identification book: a new method for the practical identification and recognition of trees / Photos. by Stephen V. Chelminski.
  8. 582.1609 BLOUIN An eclectic guide to trees east of the Rockies / Glen Blouin.
  9. R 582.16 C552 City of Trees : the complete field guide to the trees of Washington, D.C. / text by Melanie Choukas-Bradley ; illustrations by Polly Alexander


Posted by library at April 12, 2007 10:19 AM