My Olive Tree James Ramos at the Chateau de Chenonceau

at the Chateau de Chenonceau

and the AIDS pandemic

' It's also an excellent primer for adult readers who may have forgotten

awkward and proud of it

My Olive Tree James Ramos at the Chateau de ChenonceauIn this simple, touching picture book about the healing power of a loving community, a girl's grandpa and her neighbors help her grow an olive tree in a war torn land. Salam's grandpa says that olive trees are strong and that their roots run deep in their Palestinian land. They connect everyone from the farmer who presses the olives into oil to the baker who uses the oil in his taboon. Salam plants her own seed and is eager to see it grow. She waits