Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Family: Older sister, new baby sister
Nature: Trees

A unique depiction of Maple, a girl who grows up with a very special friend: a tree! Planted "when she was still a whisper" Maple and her tree share many memories together before Maple discovers another sapling appear a few feet from her tree. And the next page shows a pregnant mama. Maple tries to be a good sister, and succeeds in many ways, but she couldn't always make the baby happy. That's when Maple would take her outside to play and lay underneath her Maple tree, watching the leaves dance for both of them.

I can describe the artwork with no other word than tangibly soft. Rendered in pencil on Mylar and the digitally colored, this book has a lovely offering to all library collections for its artwork and story.