Treehouse Town

In an enchanting tale about the titular city, Sterer envisions a sylvan world “of peace and dreams and cheer” among the treetops. Loose rhymes provide an alliterative map of Treehouse Town and its inhabitants—a jolly mix of companionable animals and children of varied abilities and skin tones, “Every creature’s equal here,/ free from worry, free from fear,” and Mylie’s detailed, page-filling drawings embed numerous mini-dramas into absorbing scenes. With a school, library, arial “birdball” court, and much more, the verdant village feels fully imagined. After taking a “Tulip Train” down “Lizard Lane,” the characters slide through sycamores to an arboreal kitchen where they prepare a banquet. Even as stormy emotions threaten to disrupt the idyll, the merry villagers find their way back to a paradisiacal equilibrium. It all adds up to an inspired utopia that’s well suited to dendrophiles. Ages 4–8. (Feb.)