Picture a Tree by Barbara Reid

Picture a Tree by Barbara Reid

2015 Magnolia Book Awards Reading List
2014 Green Earth Book Award Short List
2014 USBBY Outstanding International Books List
NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2013

Picture a tree--what do YOU see? Picture a tree, from every season, and from every angle. These wondrous beings give shade and shelter. Now look again. Look closer. The possibilities are endless. In this gorgeous new picture book, Barbara Reid brings her vision, her craft, and her signature Plasticine artwork to the subject of trees. Each page is a celebration, and you will never look at trees in quite the same way again.

Barbara Reid d?veloppe une v?ritable passion pour la plasticine d's l'?cole primaire. Mais c'est seulement au secondaire qu'elle r?alise qu'elle peut en faire son m?tier. Elle s'inscrit aussit't au Coll?ge des Arts et obtient son dipl?me en 1980. Depuis, Barbara r?alise des illustrations en p?te ? modeler. Elle est aussi l'auteure des textes de plusieurs de ses livres bien qu'elle avoue ne pas ?prouver autant de plaisir ? ?crire une histoire qu'? l'illustrer. ? Les ?crivains sont mes h?ros! Moi, je ne fais que d?corer l'histoire ?, dit-elle. Barbara vit avec son mari ? Toronto.

Barbara Reid is one of Canada's leading author-illustrators. Her books have won every major children's book award, including the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award, the Governor General's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award and the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award. She has won the CBA Libris Award for Author of the Year and Illustrator of the Year - in the same year! - and in 1988 became the first Canadian to win the UNICEF-Ezra Jack Keats International Award for Excellence in Children's Book Illustration.