If you’re late to the game on this classic, that’s okay. Just buy this outstanding folktale retold by Angela Elwell Hunt and illustrated by Tim Jonke. Here’s why:
It is told by three trees. Each has dreams of becoming great. Each is deeply disappointed when they are chopped down and made into . . . . I can’t tell you or I’ll spoil this profound tale of wondering and fulfillment. Each tree later experiences amazing fame, but not in a way they or we would expect. It is God’s mysterious grace that intervenes using the humblest of designs for his grand story of redemption through Jesus Christ.