Redwoods Spiral-Bound | May 26, 2015

Nonfiction is given an exciting new spin in this picture book about a boy in a book and some very tall trees.

A boy sitting on the subway picks up a book that someone left behind. Opening it, he discovers that it is a nonfiction book about redwood forests. When he reads how redwoods have existed since prehistoric times, dinosaurs appear outside the window of the subway car. When he reads that there are redwoods alive today that first sprouted in ancient Roman times, he finds that he's sitting between two Roman centurians. And when redwood trees are described in detail, the boy emerges from the subway entrance directly into the redwood forest that's being described.

This perfect synthesis of fiction and nonfiction, crammed with interesting and accurate information about these great natural wonders, is nothing like anything that has come before it.