Nicole Wong’s lovely illustrations show a secondary story of a little girl growing up alongside the tree, hoping to follow in her firefighter uncle’s footsteps. The tree was rehabilitated and replanted at the memorial site ten years later. The text tells the true story of the Callery pear tree that was recovered at Ground Zero after the Twin Towers collapsed in 2001. The book released this year in honor of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. So, taking the first steps on the publishing path seemed the natural next journey for me!Ĭongrats on your debut picture book, Branches of Hope: The 9/11 Survivor Tree! Tell us about the book and what inspired you. As a lifelong learner, whenever I come across an interesting piece of history that I had never learned about, I’m compelled to share it with children. I’m an elementary school teacher and my favorite subjects to teach have always been reading and writing. Meeting children’s authors and hearing the backstory of books I love have always been fascinating to me. A life-affirming introduction to how 9/11 affected the United States and how we recovered together.Tell us about yourself and how you came to write for children. As the tree heals, the girl grows into an adult, and by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, she has become a firefighter like her first-responder uncle.
In this moving tribute to a city and its people, a wordless story of a young child accompanies the tree's history. The Survivor Tree found at Ground Zero was rescued, rehabilitated, and then replanted at the 9/11 Memorial site in 2011. Remember and honor the events of 9/11 and celebrate how hope appears in the midst of hardship. They were glimpses of hope in the weeks after September 11, 2001. The branches of the 9/11 Survivor Tree poked through the rubble at Ground Zero. Kate Messner, author of The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
" Branches of Hope is a tribute to resilience and hope, a gentle way to talk with our youngest readers about the memory of 9/11."
Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Newbery Honor book BOX Ann Magee's spare and lyrical text and Nicole Wong's soft-edged art afford ample space for young readers to reflect, to hope and to envision a future where peace takes root." "Poetic and meditative, this true-life fable about a tree that survived 9/11 commemorates the attack while evoking a resilient spirit and the healing power of nature.
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