Your Forest by Jon Klassen
CBC Books | Posted: April 11, 2025 3:47 PM | Last Updated: April 11
From the incomparable Jon Klassen, one in a trio of companion board books for the youngest of children
This is your sun.
It is coming up for you.
It is coming up for you.
These are your trees.
They can go over by the sun.
They can go over by the sun.
With a minimal tableau of familiar objects and a gentle rhythm suited for reading aloud, a forest and all its items—a cabin, some rocks, a (nice) forest ghost, a stream, a bridge—are assembled, ending with bedtime as the sun goes down. This is a forest for a young child to have whenever they want to go there.
One of a trio of board books focusing on safe spaces, comfort, and imagination, Your Forest signals both a departure for Jon Klassen and a story whose peculiar touches of whimsy stamp the book as iconically his. (From Candlewick)
Jon Klassen is a Canadian author and illustrator. His books include I Want My Hat Back, This is Not My Hat and We Found a Hat and he has also frequently collaborated with American author Mac Barnett on books such as Triangle, The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Circle.