Getting a child interested in books and reading at a young age can truly change their lives. Yet, so many kids across West Michigan have little to no access to books outside of school, with many not ...

I’m a lover of nature, especially trees. I’m always on the lookout for new books about trees and I’ve just discovered two very interesting ones. "Treekeepers: The Race for a Forested Future" by Lauren ...

Amy Stewart was fully prepared to geek out, as plant nerds are known to do, when she began researching her latest book: “The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession.” But as she dove into the ...

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“What trees do in their own quiet way is allow us to think about scale,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg in the introduction to “Wise Trees” (Abrams, $40). “In our world, we’re dwarfed, outlasted, even ...

Take a 20-minute stroll west from the heart of downtown Burien on Southwest 152nd Street and you’ll find yourself in a quiet residential neighborhood called Seahurst. Compared with the bustle of ...

When Mary Pope Osborne wrote the first set of stories in the Magic Tree House series in 1992, she had a contract for four books, and she figured that would be it. But then she began getting letters ...