More Trees, Please!

Trees are beautiful, useful, and important! Join a little girl in this Step 1 Comic Reader as she shares the many wonderful things about trees and how we need more, please! Comic Readers are told almost entirely in action-packed dialogue! Simple, graphic, paneled layouts introduce emergent readers to the joy of comics.

Trees! Trees! And more trees! They are big and beautiful and all around us! A little park ranger girl wants to explore them all--trees both tall and small; trees that give us fruit or shade or a place to climb or sit beneath. Trees do so much for us and the planet. Do you want to care for them just like they care for us and make the Earth a better place? Then say it with her: ＂More trees, please!＂

Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words to decode. They are for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading aided by rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues.

Alastair Heim is a picture book author located in Kansas City. Laughter is his favorite sound, purple is his favorite color, and other-people-cooking-for-me is his favorite food. He’s known to be a huge fan of music and has been known to play the guitar with impeccable mediocrity. He started writing picture books for his kids and thought there was nothing cooler than their reactions to his stories.

Amanda Morrow is an American illustrator based in Southern California. Amanda uses digital media but strives to give her artwork a traditional look inspired by her favorite materials like; gouache, pencils, and oil pastels. She brings heart and imagination to story-driven illustrations and thrives when she can play with color and texture in her work. In her free time, you can find her enjoying sunny California whether that’s on the beach or sitting in the park with a good book.