Anne Wynter

Baby Izzie’s middle-of-the-night awakening starts a chain reaction that wakes up everyone in the red brick apartment building. This cozy cumulative tale is filled with alliteration and onomatopoeia and illustrated in richly hued, textured collage illustrations.

A child reading in the branches of a large tree opens this handsome family story. But before that can, Nell, now a grandmother, planted a seed. Textured illustrations and lyrical text go back in time to present the growing tree, starting with a seed, and the close-knit family that continues to grow.