I'm Like a Tree and a Tree's Like Me - Hardcover

by Sylvaine Jaoui (Author), Anne Crahay (Illustrator)

A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2025! - The growth of a tree and of a child parallel each other in this exquisitely constructed die-cut picture book about our nestedness in the natural world.

I am a seed.
I grow bigger and bigger each day.
I'm starting to become who I am.

So begins this story, which is also how a child's life begins... and so too does a tree's. With an affirming, poetic text and gorgeous, delicate art as revealed through die-cuts on almost every spread, I'm Like a Tree and a Tree's Like Me is a beautiful picture book about how we begin, how we grow, how we're nourished, and how we live. By drawing parallels between a growing child and a growing tree, author Sylvaine Jaoui and illustrator Anne Crahay remind us of the myriad ways that humans and plants are connected as living beings.

Author Biography

Sylvaine Jaoui (1962-2023) was an award-winning French children's author. I'm Like a Tree and a Tree's Like Me is her first picture book to be published in English. Anne Crahay is a Belgian artist and illustrator. While living in the Ardennes Forest, she worked in animation and as a freelance graphic designer. She currently lives in Andrimont, Belgium, and teaches graphic design and illustration at the Saint-Luc Liège School of Art. Claudia Zoe Bedrick is the publisher, editor, and art director of Enchanted Lion Books. Several of her translations have been Batchelder Award and Honor books.