A review by thisgrrlreads
Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree by Sally M. Walker

4.0

The thrilling story of a blight that killed most of America's chestnut trees! It's thrilling! It's orange! Actually, it is. That's what's so amazing about this book about a kind of tree I now want to see in person. Yes, a tree. This book opens like a thriller--there's a problem and no one knows how to solve it. What to do? It's secondary that the problem is in a tree, although that certainly impacts the timeline of this story. It's really amazing to see the kind of work and time that goes into saving a plant from something that was introduced by a non-native species...which is also kind of the answer to the problem. I will never have to read another book about the American chestnut tree, and I won't need to because I know a ton about them.