LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
With its refrain of ‘Leave the trees, please’, there’s a dreamlike quality to this picture book and a sense of passionate intensity, both perfectly captured in Melissa Castrillon’s beautiful illustrations. Benjamin Zephaniah’s text is short, conversational but urgent, exhorting us not just to protect the trees but to appreciate their majesty and the crucial role they play in all our lives.
A rich, colour-saturated palette of reds, browns and greens depicts trees in all their glory, with children and adults, birds and insects sheltered under their boughs and among their roots.
Benjamin Zephaniah died too early, but his poetry keeps his voice loud and clear, this book in particular reflecting so clearly his love of nature and belief that all living things on Earth deserve equal protection and should live in harmony.
Andrea Reece
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Leave the Trees, Please Synopsis
Follow a little boy's friendship and journey with one tree, in this powerful and beautiful love letter to nature.
From master wordsmith, Benjamin Zephaniah, comes a breathtaking new poem and story showing how trees offer us the perspective and connection to nature we crave in our daily lives. The final scene is an honest representation of the devastating effects of deforestation and urban development, encouraging all of us, everywhere, to 'leave the trees, please'.
With resplendent illustrations from bestselling Melissa Castrillon, this book is both magnificent and timely.
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About Benjamin Zephaniah
Poet, novelist and playwright Benjamin Zephaniah (1958-2023) grew up in Jamaica and the Handsworth district of Birmingham, England, leaving school at 14. He moved to London in 1979 and published his first poetry collection, Pen Rhythm, in 1980.
Benjamin Zephaniah is an internationally renowned performance poet and acclaimed author of bestselling YA novels: Face, Gangsta Rap, Teacher's Dead, Refugee Boy and Terror Kid.
He was a Writer in Residence at the Africa Arts Collective in Liverpool and Creative Artist in Residence at Cambridge University, and was a candidate for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Arts and Humanities from the University of North London (1998), was made a Doctor of Letters by the University of Central England (1999).
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