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The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
By HOPKINS, H. Joseph
- ISBN
- 978-1-4424-1402-0 978-1-4424-8727-7
- Publisher
- S & S Beach Lane Books
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School Library Journal
Starred Review on October 1, 2013 | Preschool to Grade 4
K-Gr 2—Katherine Olivia Sessions was a real go-getter, becoming the first woman to graduate from the University of California with a science degree (1881) and transforming San Diego's City Park from a dry, ugly hillside into a lush garden flourishing beneath a beautiful canopy of trees. Motivated by the love she'd felt for trees since her childhood, Sessions researched species that would grow in arid weather and hilly terrain, and she asked gardeners around the world to s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2013
A real-life Miss Rumphius, Kate Sessions was responsible for populating San Diego's Balboa Park with lush, green trees, just in time for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915. In fact, "by the early 1900s, one in four trees growing in San Diego came from her nursery." Sessions grew up in northern California, loved studying science in school, and became the first woman to graduate from Berkeley with a degree in science. Upon graduation, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
