Since the age of seven, Andrea Alban Gosline has befriended a forest of favorite trees. There was the flowering plum in the front yard that burst in April with tart little stone fruit she ate until her stomach groaned, a Ponderosa pine she watched grow from sapling to towering tree, and a Pom-Pom that showered her with a confetti of petals as she daydreamed on the lawn. Her father, annoyed by the impossible-to-rake mess, would shoo her inside so he could vacuum the grass with a Hoover upright! Andrea vowed to write a thank you poem to her tree friends and grew up to become an inspirational parenting and children’s book author who moonlights as an environmentalist. A San Francisco mother, she believes that many of our children suffer from "nature deficit" and her mission is to ensure that no child is left inside!