Small Fry Picks of the Week: The Tree Lady

The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins


Meet Kate Sessions, a young woman with a grand passion for trees.  She has guts. She has Vigor. And she has a vision-- a green, leafy vision that will one day transform the city.

A lovely and inspiring picture book that follows the life of American botanist and horitculturalist, Kate Sessions. The true story of how one tree-loving woman followed her passion and love for science and the outdoors when most girls were supposed to keep their hands clean, and changed a city forever.



Locomotive by Brian Floca

Here are the locomotives, the iron horses, the great machines, pulling their trains behind them.  Here are the crews that make them run, and here is how they do it. And here is a family heading West, hoping to start a new life. It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America's first transcontinental railroad, still new, just built.

Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by.  Come ride the rails, come cross the young country!  All Aboard!


Click on the title to place it on hold at the Ventress Memorial Library!

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