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Tops and Other Spinning Toys by Beth Dvergsten Stevens

Elmo's Little Dreidel by Naomi Kleinberg

I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Dreidel by Caryn Yacowitz

Books about Spinning Tops

56 books — 3 voters

Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved by Stuart M. Frank

Boy's make at home things by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

•Splinters From A Whittler Of Men

108 books — 4 voters

A Woodcarver's Workbook by Mary Duke Guldan

Caricature Carvers Showcase by Caricature Carvers of America

Best Wood Carving Books

20 books — 5 voters

Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and A... by Henry A. Gleason

Mila's Favorite Forestry, Forest and Wood Books

90 books — 4 voters

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Wooden Titles

611 books — 31 voters

Picture Books About Trees

189 books — 56 voters

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“ Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbeat thump of drums; the mournful wail of violins--we love them because they sound like us. ”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

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“ Wood Music: A Playlist Foals, ‘Birch Tree’, 2015 Arnold Bax, November Woods, 1917 The Beatles, ‘Norwegian Wood’, 1965 Igor Stravinsky, ‘Berceuse’, from The Firebird, 1910 A Woodland Reading List William Boyce and David Garrick, ‘Heart of Oak’, 1760 George Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, 1913 ——, ‘Loveliest of Trees’, from ‘A Shropshire Lad’, 1911 Editors, ‘I Want a Forest’, 2009 Edward Elgar, String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, 1919 ——, Quintet in A minor, Op., 84, 1918 ——, Cello Concerto Wood Music: A Playlist Foals, ‘Birch Tree’, 2015 Arnold Bax, November Woods, 1917 The Beatles, ‘Norwegian Wood’, 1965 Igor Stravinsky, ‘Berceuse’, from The Firebird, 1910 A Woodland Reading List William Boyce and David Garrick, ‘Heart of Oak’, 1760 George Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, 1913 ——, ‘Loveliest of Trees’, from ‘A Shropshire Lad’, 1911 Editors, ‘I Want a Forest’, 2009 Edward Elgar, String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, 1919 ——, Quintet in A minor, Op., 84, 1918 ——, Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, 1919 ——, Owls: An Epitaph, Op. 27, 1907 Keane, ‘Somewhere Only We Know’, 2004 Lindisfarne, Dingly Dell, 1972 Oasis, ‘Songbird’, 2002 Pink Floyd, ‘Careful with That Axe, Eugene’, 1969 Camille Saint-Saëns, ‘Le Coucou au Fond des Bois’ (‘The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Wood’), 1886 Pablo Casals, ‘El Cant dels Ocells’ (‘Song of the Birds’), 1961 Antonín Dvořák, Waldesruhe (‘Silent Woods’) for cello and orchestra, Op. 68, no. 5, 1894 Edvard Grieg, Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, no. 4, ‘Little Bird’, 1886 Franz Liszt, Legende S.175 no. 1, St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds, 1863 Monty Python, ‘The Lumberjack Song’, 1975 Van Morrison, ‘Redwood Tree’, 1972 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ‘Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja’ (‘The Bird- catcher, that’s me’), from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), 1791 George Perlman, ‘A Birdling Sings’, from ‘Ghetto Sketches’, 1931 Pulp, ‘The Trees’, 2001 Radiohead, King of Limbs, 2011 Robert Schumann, ‘Jäger auf der Lauer’ (‘Hunters on the Lookout’), from Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, no. 2, 1850–51 ——, ‘Freundliche Landschaft’ (‘Friendly Landscape’), from Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, no. 5, 1850–51 Jean Sibelius, ‘The Aspen’, no. 3, ‘The Birch’, no. 4, ‘The Spruce’, no. 5, from Op. 75, ‘The Trees’, 1914–19 Trad., ‘The Trees They Do Grow High’ ——, ‘The Willow Tree’ The Verve, ‘Sonnet’, from Urban Hymns, 1997 Paul Weller, ‘Wild Wood’, 1993 ...more ”
― John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood

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