Bruce The Spruce

About the Book

Book Description (Web site) This is a story about family and honoring the forest environment. Bruce the Spruce is a very special tree to the Green family. Over the years they picnic, play under and decorate their special tree in the forest who they have named Bruce. As other trees in the forest are cut down Bruce worries what will happen to him. Finally one day the family returns and digs up Bruce and replants him in their yard where they continue to celebrate this special coniferous tree and make Bruce a permanent part of the family. Bruce the Spruce Finds a Home presents a visual story that champions the ideals of family and conservation and is a story much bigger than its parts.

About the Author

Author’s Cover Bio (Back cover of book) Jerry Gordinier is a retired high school principal who wrote his first poem in the fifth grade. He began to seriously write children’s stories and poems after suffering a severe head injury from a fall from a ladder while getting the family’s holiday decorations down from the attic. His imaginative stories and poems have great appeal to children and parents. Jerry’s sense of humor and expressive stories capture the exuberance that is experienced only through the eyes of a child.