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We Planted a Tree by Diane Muldrow5/23/2023 Board of Library Commissioners, says Fran McLoughlin, the youth services librarian. Story walk was completed in October 2021 with funds from a federal grant through the Mass. That means, Vanessa explains, “you can walk around outside, you can read the book outside, and you don’t have to just sit in one place and flip the pages over.” “You don’t have to just sit in one place,” says Vanessa, if you read a book featured on a story walk at the Eastham Public Library. For example, she says, “They help us breathe better, and when it’s hot out you can sit under it and get cooled off.”īoth poetry month and Earth Day are in April, and to mark both occasions, the Eastham Public Library presented We Planted a Tree as one of its story walk books. Vanessa likes that “the book has different places in it, like Africa, Paris, and New York.” Reading it, you’re reminded of ways trees make the world a better place. “That was his first Christmas tree.” “The trees grew up and the families grew up,” is Vanessa Van Ryswood’s succinct summary of what happens in We Planted a Tree. “We have a huge old tree planted in the yard by my daddy when he was a little boy,” she says. In the book, families in different corners of the world each plant a tree, and “the trees grew up and the families grew up.” Which reminds Vanessa of a family tree story of her own. The illustrations are by Bob Staake, who lives in Chatham. Vanessa Van Ryswood, who lives in Eastham, recommends We Planted a Tree, a poem by Diane Muldrow.
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