The Paper-Flower Tree

Social Media outreach through Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Wide-circulation of review copies to the trade, consumer media and blogs Illustration Blog interviews and attention Collaborate with high profile blogs and reviewers that are dedicated to the diverse books movement to promote the book. The book is being published to coincide with an exhibition in London of costume, textile, and illustration work by Jacqueline Ayers. We will be sure to document the show and the opening in order to circulate material through our social media. We are also assisting the UK curator and the Ayer daughters to bring the exhibition here. Collaborate with teachers and librarians to create a teachers guide that explains how to use this book in the classroom. Get a feature for the book on weneeddiversebooks.org. Partner with Multi-cultural Children's Book Day (January 27th) to promote the book and have it featured on their List of Diverse Books for Teachers and Parents.

Filled with the sights and sounds of Thailand, this simple and touching tale is true to childhood the world over.

A passing old peddler gives a little girl a “seed” to grow a paper flower tree, and though the other villagers scoff, her faith is rewarded. This is a beautiful book, set in a lush and colorful Thailand, about a community and a girl whose dreams become reality.

Jacqueline Ayer was a Jamaican-American, born in New York City in 1930. She began her education at the Art Students League in New York, proceeded by time spent at Syracuse University and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Ayer was a head fashion designer in London for many years and created more than 10 children’s books, for which she was awarded a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators.