Welcome to the world of trees. Find out who lives in them and on them, who eats them, and who helps forests grow. See the tallest, oldest, and thickest trees in the world. Study wooden musical instruments and ritual masks of different nations, wooden transport from different eras. Get to know the legendary trees in the myths and religions of the world. Finally, take a walk through a real forest and make friends with the trees! The artist Piotr Socha and biologist Wojciech Grajkowski, already known to readers, also dedicated their new book to the relationship between man and the natural world, or more precisely, trees. 34 colorful spreads tell about what trees are, how they are structured, how they are born, live, and die; about the important place they occupy in the history of human civilizations.
The first book by Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grakowski, Bees, received many international awards, including the prestigious Deutsche Jugend Literature Prize, the highest prize in German children's literature. Trees was published simultaneously with the Russian and Polish editions in 5 other languages in different countries of the world.
REVIEWS FROM READERS AND CRITICS
Due to the unusual visuality, the book's addressability expands. Only a teenager can read it on his own. But a preschooler would enjoy looking at the pictures - especially if there is an adult nearby who will comment on what is drawn. So "Trees" can be considered a book for family reading.
Papmambook
As in the book "Bees", the most important thing here is how complexly and interestingly all the existing worlds of living nature are interconnected on our planet. And if the world of bees is inextricably linked with the world of people - almost all sciences are connected with bees: chemistry, physics, medicine, mathematics, architecture, not to mention history, archeology, then with trees everything is even more complex and interesting. I really want to write "firstly, it is beautiful", and it really is incredibly beautiful, but the most important and most interesting thing in the book is not only (and not so much) how the world of trees is depicted, but those interweaving connections that, like the roots of trees, permeate our lives.
Year of Literature
A monumental popular science publication about the interaction between man and nature. On thirty-four colorful spreads, the authors talk about trees and how they accompany man from birth to death. The book contains information not only about the structure of trees, their species, life cycle and record-breaking representatives, but also many non-obvious facts. Legends and customs, ritual masks and musical instruments, religion and medicine - and all this is connected with the largest representatives of the plant world. Animal camouflage and literary characters, transport in different eras and the advantage of wood as a material - in bright illustrations and not at all wooden text.
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