Every Leaf on Every Tree

Written and illustrated by Lauren Soloy

Nimbus Publishing

 978-1-77471-423-2

20 pp.

Ages 0-3

June 2025 

 

How great is a parent's love for their child? For this rabbit, that love is vast, mighty, boundless, and endless. For this family, that love is everything.

From Every Leaf on Every Tree, written and illustrated by Lauren Soloy

In a poetic love song to their baby, this rabbit declares the extent of love they feel. Referring to the wonderful elements of their natural world, that love is extolled profusely. 

And every petal 

     on every flower

And every second 

     in every hour 

It's in the grass and the flowers, the ocean and the sand, and in butterflies, birds, and stars. But it's also in the personal touch and tickle. When a parent loves a child, that love is truly reflected in everything.

From Every Leaf on Every Tree, written and illustrated by Lauren Soloy

Every Leaf on Every Tree is a board book and aimed at the very youngest of our children, and so it will be a lovely baby gift for expectant parents. Lauren Soloy, who is best known to me as an illustrator of books such as Kathy Stinson's A Tulip in Winter, has an impressive collection of picture books in her bibliography. But with Every Leaf on Every Tree, she has become an author-illustrator to me, and one that can put words to her art in a heartfelt way. Every Leaf on Every Tree reads like a love song to a child who may or may not be too young to understand the depth of that affection. Regardless, the reading of this book can begin when a child is still a baby and progress to ages one and two and older and even until they are reading it for themselves. And they will always appreciate the comfort of knowing the magnitude of that closeness.

From Every Leaf on Every Tree, written and illustrated by Lauren Soloy

In addition to the text, Lauren Soloy also illustrated Every Leaf on Every Tree. While it's not always possible as a reader to identify the media the illustrator uses, I found that it was especially challenging to identify Lauren Soloy's medium. The art appears to include paint and pencil, perhaps digital rendering, and even cut-paper. Regardless, Lauren Soloy gives us a picture book in which parent and child are part of each other and a larger world of immense beauty and scope. In their own little world, they are everything. In the world at large, they are one.