Love Reading 4 Kids
Award-winning author and designer Coralie Bickford-Smith follows up The Fox and the Star with a wonderful new fable celebrating belonging and the importance of understanding those around you. Poetically told, the simple text which is beautifully designed on the page to match the spirit of the words, tells of the importance of shelter and its power to encourage confidence and tolerance as well as empowering development and independence. The interdependence of the bird and the tree in this story is a beautiful telling of a universal theme.
The Financial Times
In The Song of the Tree, a bird decides to stay in a tree rather than migrate at the turn of the season. In beautiful woodcut-style images, Coralie Bickford-Smith depicts nature at its most majestic and tells a lovely fable about belonging.
JAMES LOVEGROVE
Creative Review
A heart-warming and exquisitely-illustrated story, for Bickford-Smith The Song of the Tree is a celebration about the world around us and the importance of the natural world at a time when we need it the most.
Angels and Urchins Magazine
Never have the woods looked more beautiful than in this exquisite new fable about growing up, exploring the world and understanding where you belong.
Observer
Another exquisite, clothbound tale from Coralie Bickford-Smith... [her] illustrations are so vivid and patterned, reminiscent of traditional African wax prints, that each page feels alive. The night-time stars and fireflies sparkle, though there's no glitter or foil used, while elsewhere the text swoops bird-like across the page.
The Dulwich Diverter
The Song of the Tree is a stunningly illustrated fable for our times.
