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House Held Up by Trees

by Ted Kooser
illustration by Jon Klassen

In a tender story of time’s passage, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kooser tells of a house that sees its inhabitants come and go and still it stands, eventually—literally— held up by the encroaching trees. Klassen’s evocative illustrations give a personal sense to a tale with heart.

House Held Up by Trees. Text © 2012 by Ted Kooser. Illustrations © 2012 by Jon Klassen. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA