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Tree of Life, The: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World
Elisa Boxer
Illustrator: Alianna Rozentsveig
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Rocky Pond Books/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-61712-0
Keywords: History-Second World War, Concentration Camps, Terezin, WWII,, picture book for older readers,
Against the odds, a seedling maple, smuggled into a Nazi concentration camp and tended by children and their teacher, survived to propagate hundreds of offspring around the world. Digital illustrations in a muted palette.