The King of Trees

Original Title
树王

Text & illustrations by
Dawu

Pages
44

Age
4+

Published
Poplar Publishing House
August 2019

Sold
Spanish

Nobody knows one sapling could grow into a huge tree before it actually grows huge. When it was in medium size, they just saw it as an ordinary tree. The tree in town never stopped growing, only then people finally realized, that there was this huge tree standing there. They called it the king of trees, a miracle. It was people’s proud, until it became too huge. People started worried, and decided, to cut it down.

This is a book with trees as its protagonists, a book about human wrestling with nature, and a book reflecting on industrialization and urbanization.

Award
Selected for the dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picturebooks and exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2019

小树在长成大树之前，没有人知道它是大树。当它长到普通树的大小时，大家都以为它只是一棵普通的树。后来它越长越大，人们才发现原来这儿有一棵这么大的树。人们在树下度过愉快的时光。树越长越大，被称作树王，越来越多的游客来这里参观树王，小镇变成了城市。树王是人们的骄傲。然而树还在长大，强壮的树根破坏了人类的房屋，树荫遮天蔽日。人们开始担忧起来，他们不知道树还会长多大……

这是一本以树为主角的书，一本人类与自然角力的书，一本反思工业化和城市化的书。

入选英国dPICTUS 2019年“世界100本优秀绘本”，并在法兰克福书展展出。