The Sour Cherry Tree

By Naseem Hrab, Nahid Kazemi (illustrator),

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1 author picked The Sour Cherry Tree as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

"I bit my mom on the toe this morning" might be one of my favorite opening lines for a picture book.

I love it when a sad book also makes room for playfulness and humor. It also has the loveliest illustrations, utilizing soft pencil lines and a limited color palette to match the gentleness of the text.

This book is a great example of how specificity can make a story feel so genuine and relatable, no matter who the reader is.

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