The Littlest Maple

Can the littlest tree in the forest learn to wait for something sweet?

It's Sugar Bush season, and the whole woodland is buzzing! The tall Grandmother Maples are dripping golden sweetwater, and everyone is feasting under the Maple Moon - everyone except one very impatient little sapling.

Wáhta wants to make sweet maple syrup, and she wants to do it RIGHT NOW! But she's far too little - and no amount of stretching, gulping rainwater, or stomping her tiny roots will hurry her along. Just when she's ready to give up, a wise old turtle named Tóta shares a secret as golden as syrup itself:

The sweetest things grow slow, season by season - and they're always worth the wait.

With bouncy, laugh-out-loud rhymes and a payoff sweeter than the first spoonful of spring, The Littlest Maple turns the tricky lesson of patience into a story kids will ask for again and again.

• Funny, bouncy, read-aloud rhyme - perfect for bedtime and circle time
• A gentle, un-preachy lesson about patience and growing up
• A sweet peek at how maple syrup is made
• Written by Indigenous author Jem Maracle, honoring the maple-sugaring tradition

A heart-warming spring read-aloud for ages 4-10.

Book 2 of Tóta's Woodland Tales. Collect the series - wise Tóta Turtle appears in every book!