The Tree That Would Not Die Author:Ellen Levine, Ted Rand (Illustrator) The story of a five-hundred-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas, is told from the tree's point of view, covers the nation's history that took place during the tree's lifetime, and describes the malicious 1989 poisoning that nearly destroyed it.
Told in the first person from the viewpoint of the Treaty Oak, a 400-year-old oak tree that was poinsoned in 1989, this picture book chronicles American history from the seemingly narrow perspective of what the tree might have seen.