Introduces trees, describing such topics as leaves, flowers, fruit, cones, and bark and profiling the unique features of ten common North American trees.

Provides a photographic guide to some of the world's most ancient trees, featuring seventy portraits of such species as yews, baobabs, and dragon's blood trees.

"A picture book describing the symbiotic relationships of forests, describing a young tree and how she is helped by her forest family as she grows"--

Wise Trees is a photography book about trees that have a remarkable story to tell us. To create it, photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel spent two years travelling to five continents to photograph fifty-seven extraordinary trees that were carefully selected for their historic and cultural significance. From Luna, the coastal redwood in California that became an international symbol for conservation, to the Bodhi Tree, the sacred fig in India that...