The gift of the tree by alvin tresselt5/15/2023 ![]() That work was called a classic by Publishers Weekly. His book ''The Dead Tree'' (1972), for children ages 4 to 8, was named an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Irma Simonton Black Award of the Bank Street College of Education. ![]() By that time, it noted, he was the sole author of more than 30 children's books and had written a score of book-length adaptations of folk tales. ![]() Tresselt's books had sold over a million copies, the multivolume reference work ''Contemporary Authors'' reported in 1980. ![]() Tresselt, a children's book author who won praise for describing and explaining nature to the young, died on July 24 at his home in Burlington, Vt. ![]()
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