Luna & Me: The True Story of a Girl Who Lived in a Tree to Save a Forest

Kostecki-Shaw’s mixed-media artwork portrays activist Julia Butterfly Hill as a childlike figure wearing a bandana and yellow dress as she takes up residence for two years in the branches of Luna, an ancient California redwood, to save the tree from logging. The third-person narrative shifts between Butterfly’s point of view (“Living 180 feet high in a tree wasn’t easy. Her tree house was the size of a sandbox”) and that of the tree (“Welcome, Little Butterfly. You are brave to have ventured up so high!”). A warm, appealing snapshot of this environmental activist. Ages 5–9. Agency: Worley-Shoemaker Literary Management. (May)