Today (1/26) is Tu B'Shevat http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/jewish/tu-bshevat or the Jewish Arbor Day according to the lunar calendar so I decided to make my two Kindle e-books available for free starting at midnight Pacific Standard Time for 24 hours.

A Pig, a Horse and a Catfish  http://www.amazon.com/A-Pig-Horse-Catfish-ebook/dp/B009GERYUK/ref=tmm_ki... is a story about a young couple and their two sons from the Neolithic era or the New Stone Age living the life of hunter-gatherers with limited agriculture. The plot thickens when a tree grows in the couple's garden and bears a beautiful striped fruit.

In the spring poem that appears in Three Rhymes for Young Poets Age Five to Twelve,  http://www.amazon.com/Three-Rhymes-Young-Twelve-ebook/dp/B009G9ZMDG two friends go for a walk in the forest and come across a big log. You can see the two friends, Dog and Hog, inspecting this log together in front of a tree in the second illustration http://pinterest.com/uguisse/ of this book.

I love the eucalyptus

trees

for the way

they make the air

fragrant,

the birch and cherry

trees for their bark,

the bamboo

grove and the palms

for the way

they sway

in the winds,

the chestnut trees for the catkins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catkin

dusting the pavement,

and the rain trees for their pods

and the fall colors.

Which trees do you

like?