When I first thought of the topic I was thinking of the [amazon_link id="0261102389" target="_blank" ]Lord of the Rings[/amazon_link] and the Ents by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954/55). I wasn’t alone.

DaveyTree: I was going to bring that up! Who doesn’t love TreeBeard, the living, walking tree from LOTR!!!

CareoftheTrees: Talking trees are the best.

Sarah, (StarkBrosCares), social rep for Stark Bros (Louisiana, Missouri, USA), mentioned some beautiful books.

“[amazon_link id="0060256656" target="_blank" ]The Giving Tree[/amazon_link] got to me at an early age,” Sarah started off.

Shel Silverstein 1964 [amazon_link id="0060256656" target="_blank" ]The Giving Tree[/amazon_link] A children’s picture book that tells a bittersweet tale of an apple tree’s love for a small boy and her willingness to give him whatever he asks even it’s at the her expense.

Sarah also provided a great link with the Top 5 Green Picture Books for Kids.

Everyone’s favourite book in the Top 5 Green Picture Book list was Dr Seuss’ (1971) [amazon_link id="0394823370" target="_blank" ]The Lorax[/amazon_link]. “The Lorax speaks for the Tuffula trees,” says Davey Tree

In addition to the Lorax and The Lord of the Rings, DaveyTree also recommended anything by Beatrix Potter as well as Harry Potter and the whomping willow.

Chris of CoronaTools came up with: [amazon_link id="0745917437" target="_blank" ]Tale of Three Trees[/amazon_link], a traditional folktale retold by Angela Elwell Hunt.

Mike_Caprio and Lisa of NJ Trees both liked [amazon_link id="0060736267" target="_blank" ]A Tree grows in Brooklyn[/amazon_link] (1943) by Betty Smith, a tale about the tenacious tree that grows through the pavement.  Other tree peeps were incensed that the tree was an Ailanthus altissima, an invasive weed tree. Of course it had to be a weed tree; better behaved trees wouldn’t have been so tenacious! HA!

Arbojet came up with [amazon_link id="0142410365" target="_blank" ]James and the Giant Peach[/amazon_link] written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl.

Backyard Wisdom suggested her daughter’s favourite book, [amazon_link id="1930900171" target="_blank" ]Miss Twiggley’s Tree[/amazon_link] by Dorothea Warren Fox written almost 40 years ago and reprinted in 2002.

Backyard Wisdom, Natlarb and Jeavonna (Jchapstk) all loved [amazon_link id="0142401110" target="_blank" ]My Side of the Mountain[/amazon_link] a story about a 12 year old boy who ran away from home to live in the woods in upstate New York. Written by 1959 by Jean Craighead George.

And finally we all reminisced about [amazon_link id="0525477683" target="_blank" ]Winnie the Pooh[/amazon_link] and the 100 acre wood. Who could forget the Pooh! Great books written by AA Milne (1926 to 1928)

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