Mother Aspen: A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Communicate -- Annette Lebox, Hardcover Board & Skill Games An elderly woman recounts her

An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation

drops a stick in a stream to watch it float away

she begins to wonder if there's more to him than she originally thought

As she did in The Grieving Brain

the joy of small hopes

Mother Aspen: A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Communicate -- Annette Lebox, Hardcover Board & Skill Games An elderly woman recounts herA lyrical story of an aspen grove through the seasons, inspired by the ground breaking work of Dr. Suzanne Simard on how trees and fungi talk to each other. In early spring, the Mother Tree wakens. She is hundreds of years old, and her children are the sprouts that she sends up from her roots. They look like many separate trees, but they are all part of the Mother Tree. Above ground, the aspens use the sun to produce sugar. Below ground, fungi wrap