How to Love a Tree 🌳

A public service announcement from Brightness the Bird Girl 🐦

📣 How to Love a Tree won Best Super Short at the Florence Film Awards! 📣

A Small Film, A Big Moment

I’m happy to share that my super short stop-motion short film, How to Love a Tree, will debut right here, right now, on my Substack for my fab subscribers.

The film stars Brightness the Bird Girl, a character you might already know from my picture book 📘that received a GET IT! recommendation from Kirkus Reviews.

The prose is sparse, elegant, and effortlessly poetic; the story’s conceptual nature invites conversation, creative interpretation, and critical thinking.

An examination of the human spirit with a singular protagonist and enchanting artwork.

-Kirkus Reviews

Brightness recently appeared at the Bologna Book Festival. Her story has quietly made its way to the hearts of young and old around the world.

So grab the kiddies, including the ones in the adult costume. (You. That means you.)

Enjoy!

📘Get the book!

Here I am reading the book on YouTube:

🇮🇹📘In Italia —compralo in Italia ma il libro è in inglese. (te lo tradurrò via email)

📘ebook version