Im Like a Tree and a Trees Like Me [Hardcover]

AKirkus ReviewsBest Picture Book of 2025! The growth of a tree and of a child parallel each other in this exquisitely constructed die-cut picture book about our nestedness in the natural world.

I am a seed.
I grow bigger and bigger each day.
Im starting to become who I am.

So begins this story, which is also how a childs life begins& and so too does a trees. With an affirming, poetic text and gorgeous, delicate art as revealed through die-cuts on almost every spread,Im Like a Tree and a Trees Like Meis a beautiful picture book about how we begin, how we grow, how were nourished, and how we live. By drawing parallels between a growing child and a growing tree, author Sylvaine Jaoui and illustrator Anne Crahay remind us of the myriad ways that humans and plants are connected as living beings.

Sylvaine Jaoui(1962–2023) was an award-winning French children’s author.I’m Like a Tree and a Tree’s Like Meis her first picture book to be published in English.Anne Crahayis a Belgian artist and illustrator. While living in the Ardennes Forest, she worked in animation and as a freelance graphic designer. She currently lives in Andrimont, Belgium, and teaches graphic design and illustration at the Saint-Luc Liège School of Art.Claudia Zoe Bedrickis the publisher, editor, and art director of Enchanted Lion Books. Several of her translations have been Batchelder Award and Honor books.

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STARRED REVIEW!  A child and a tree grow and develop side by side... Translated from French, Jaouis conversational text is spare yet playful as child and tree comment on their similarities. Crahays watercolorlike art is simultaneously majestic and quirky, with sweet-faced insects or snails smiling up at readelCp