The Witness Trees

• For generations, trees have silently witnessed history's most pivotal moments.
• In the sweep of wind over grass, near the pulse of rivers, we stand, monuments of bark and age-curled green.
• Above, an avalanche of stars; below, the ocean of earth.
• Within, the uncounted lives birthed, bloomed, and plucked from the gardens we tend.
• We survive. We remember. We witness.
• In evocative verse and stunning artwork, discover the story of the world's most enduring witnesses: the trees.
• From the Flower of Kent apple tree still standing in Sir Isaac Newton's yard, to the English oak given to Jesse Owens after facing down Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
• From the California redwood saved from destruction by July Butterfly Hill, to the Callery pear tree still miraculously alive after the World Trade Towers fell.
• It is a moving tribute to the world's most famous trees, many of which still need humanity's protection.
• Be moved, be inspired, be amazed by the quiet, reverberating voices of nature's sentinels: the witness trees.

Bushel & Peck Books is an independent children's book publisher founded in 2018 by husband-and-wife team David and Stephanie Miles. They combined their passion for art, books, creativity, and helping kids in need, carefully crafting every detail from foil cover embellishments to designer endpapers. Through its Book-for-Book Promise, the company donates a book to a child in need for every book sold.