Kurt Cyrus

As in World Pizza by Cece Meng, a misunderstanding has a drastic result: instead of "a trillium," Polly's Plant Pavilion delivers a trillion trees, starting with a thousand. The boy and his sister and their family get to work, planting trees first in their yard, then along roads, in parks ("We asked permission, just in case"), and elsewhere: as a windbreak, on a hillside to prevent erosion, in an area that had been burned. Appropriate types of trees are planted in each place (e.g. ash, alder, willow, and cottonwood near a river), and a final page includes advice for planting trees. A smooth, silly, rhyming read-aloud with an environmental slant.… (mere)