I'm Like a Tree and a Tree's Like Me — Sylvaine Jaoui

The growth of a tree and of a child parallel each other in this exquisitely constructed die-cut picture book about our nestedness in the natural worldI am a seed. I grow bigger and bigger each day. I???m starting to become who I am. So begins this story, which is also how a child???s life begins??? and so too does a tree???s. With an affirming, poetic text and gorgeous, delicate art as revealed through die-cuts on almost every spread, I???m Like a Tree and a Tree???s Like Me is a beautiful picture book about how we begin, how we grow, how we???re nourished, and how we live. By drawing parallels between a growing child and a growing tree, author Sylvaine Jaoui and illustrator Anne Crahay remind us of the myriad ways that humans and plants are connected as living beings.