“The Tree Book: Superior Selections for Landscapes, Streetscapes, and Gardens” by Michael A. Dirr and Keith S. Warren ($79.95, Timber Press): “We love trees,” declare the authors in the first words of ...

This story is part of Grist’s Summer Dreams arts and culture series, a weeklong exploration of how popular fiction can influence our environmental reality. If you have warm, fuzzy memories of reading ...

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 ...

Entertainment Weekly reports on unseemly acts of eco-terrorism in Oakland, California: Somebody is chopping up perfectly good trees to mirror the selfless act of the titular character in Shel ...

OK, you can agree with me that The '90s were a pretty wild time in children's literature. We had Goosebumps, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and those truly traumatizing Animorph covers. Or, if you ...

This fall, why not venture into the woods with “The Tree,” a book-length essay on the impenetrability of the natural world by the late British novelist John Fowles (“The Magus,” “The French Lieutenant ...

“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 ...