Getting a child interested in books and reading at a young age can truly change their lives. Yet, so many kids across West Michigan have little to no access to books outside of school, with many not ...

This hands-on activity will connect your child with the trees in her backyard and neighborhood. Aside from being big and beautiful, trees serve a very important purpose on our planet. Can your child ...

What if the Giving Tree said "no" to the boy? Thousands of adults online are resonating with alternate endings to classic children’s books that may not have aged well in light of modern-day gentle ...

Once upon a time, there was an 87½-foot tall white pine tree that stood between two houses on Ronalds Street in Iowa City. That tree, which already leaned a bit toward the home of Joe and Julia ...

When I tell people I’m an environmental psychologist, they often assume that means I am a “tree hugger” and they are not entirely wrong. But it really means I spend a lot of time thinking and finding ...

“What trees do in their own quiet way is allow us to think about scale,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg in the introduction to “Wise Trees” (Abrams, $40). “In our world, we’re dwarfed, outlasted, even ...