This beautifully illustrated book takes young readers on an adventurous journey into the world of trees and their tiny guardians, the chipmunks. Through the characters of the gnomes, children can look into the crowns and under the bark of mysterious green giants from all over the world. They will learn, for example, what trees feed on, what is needed for fruit to ripen on a branch, how trees help each other with animals and other organisms, or how they communicate with each other. Rumors and all kinds of interesting things await young readers under the flip-up pictures, and there are also topics for observing or protecting nature