Evergreen Ben Hatke this luminous story brings the

this luminous story brings the scope of a lifetime into focus for a young reader and fills it with the magic of gifts given and received

Samantha is Alex’s best friend

Or are they destined to go the way of a Christmas tree on New Year’s Day

Sometimes laced with green M&Ms

and where her father may have come from

Evergreen Ben Hatke this luminous story brings theA picture book by Caldecott medal winner Matt Cordell about a timid squirrel who makes a brave journey to help a relative who is ill. Evergreen the squirrel is afraid of many things: thunder, hawks, and the dark paths of Buckthorn Forest. But when her mother tasks Evergreen with delivering soup to her sick Granny Oak, the little squirrel must face her fears and make the journey. Along the way, Evergreen is met by other forest dwellers some want to