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Pitch for One Tree by Andrea Koehle Jones

I am seeking representation for ONE TREE, an inspiring and hopeful children’s counting board book. About One Tree Sweet, fun and hopeful, One Tree awakens children to the wonder of nature. For babies and toddlers ages 0 to 4 and up and fans of Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 + Sheep in a Jeep + MOO, BAA, …
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Pitch for The Hummingbird Trees by Andrea Koehle Jones

THE SECRET GARDEN / STRANGER THINGS / HOOT A bioterrorism attack on the trees spawns a monstrous sleeping sickness. 11yo Laurel can tap into tree-to-tree communication. Now she must race across the globe to save her family, the trees and the world. #PitMad #MG #MR #AD #F #CliFi   MYA’S STRATEGY TO SAVE THE WORLD …
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Pitch for Between the Wish Trees by Andrea Koehle Jones

THE SECRET GARDEN / STRANGER THINGS / HOOT A bioterrorism attack on the trees spawns a monstrous sleeping sickness. 11yo Laurel can tap into tree-to-tree communication. Now she must race across the globe to save her family, the trees and the world. #PitMad #MG #MR #AD #F #CliFi   MYA’S STRATEGY TO SAVE THE WORLD …
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Reaching up, reaching out… but still we take you

Reaching up, reaching out, but still we take you.
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Tree quotes by Canadian environmentalist and author Andrea Koehle Jones

“I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.”

― Andrea Koehle Jones, The Wish Trees
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The mountains are calling…

I have moved to the mountains for several months to finish my second book, The Hummingbird Trees. I have been working on this YA novel about a young empath with a powerful connection to trees for five years. I am getting ready to review the latest edits and let The Hummingbird Trees go out into the world to …
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Andrea Koehle Jones Completes First Draft of The Hummingbird Trees during #NanoWriMo

Thousands of children across Canada will be receiving trees

“Thanks so much for the opportunity for the kids to plant trees at the camp this year. I never realized how much the kids would enjoy it and feel like they were planting into the future.”  – Marie Tubby, Director, Frontier Trails Camp

This year, the ChariTree Foundation is sending more than 15,000 children at summer camps across Canada a tree of their own to plant this year.

Andrea Koehle Jones, Charitree’s executive director, is a former Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da Program Director and she has a specia...

The Star Catchers – One family’s Earth Day Project

Where have all the starfish gone? Every week I take the kids to the far side of the island to look for sea stars. We have been looking since last fall without success. It feels like the starfish are canaries in the coal mine of the ocean and that’s something to feel sad about and …
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Children’s eco crafts – relevant art that’s fun!

Here’s something fun to do with the kids this Earth Day – make eco crafts out of k-cups and t-cups – you know those single-serve coffee discs that can’t be recycled. What you need: K-cups, T-cups, any used single-serve plastic coffee pods/discs. Glue Gun How to make them: Simply arrange your pods in any shape. …
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