Nell Plants a Tree author-Mike King leading Eden to The Institute

leading Eden to The Institute for Lower Learning

unbeknownst to Charlie

Illustrated from drawings by Pat Marriott

Stacey Abrams

Her mother died saving her from harm when she was just a baby

Nell Plants a Tree author-Mike King leading Eden to The InstituteThis stunning, poetic picture book shows how one little girls careful tending of a pecan tree creates the living center of a loving, intergenerational Black family. Before her grandchildren climbed the towering tree, explored its secret nests, raced to its sturdy trunk, read in its cool shade, or made pies with its pecans . . . Nell buried a seed. And just as, with Nells love and care, her tree grows and thrivesso do generations of her close knit