Description: A new generation of old-growth defenders and activist-poets, from kindergarten to grade twelve, express their love and respect for trees.
In Worth More Growing, youth, from kindergarten through grade twelve, share their love and respect for trees. Speaking to our changing climate, this new generation of old-growth defenders express their observations, anger, kinship, hope, and sorrow. This unique anthology includes a wide range of voices--Indigenous, settler, immigrant, and even international youth. Worth More Growing is a necessary anthology highlighting the importance of nature to a generation that will experience the ongoing consequences of climate change.Review Quotes: "It's impossible to look at the miracle of a tree and not be deeply moved. It's the same with the rich array of writing in Worth More Growing. If you seek out elemental shared creative communication, essential imaginative utterance, and poetry's pure drop, you'll find it throughout this quite wonderful anthology." --Russell Thornton, father, poet, author of Answer to Blue
"To attend to trees the way children attend to trees. That is the mission, the message, the meaning of this impressive collection of children's poetry. These poems attest to the love that children have for trees: careful, imaginative, guileless. One child writes: whenever I get close to a tree/ my heart feels more lovely. Another admits: I love trees in a different way than people. Another warns: Before you cut me down/. . . let me tell you . . . /tree frogs cling to my bark. Read this book for the innocence and for the wisdom it contains." --Arleen Paré, author of Lake of Two Mountains