Toby Lolness used to live happily and peacefully with his mother and father, a brilliant scientist. But Professor Lolness’s greatest and most recent discovery disrupts Toby’s universe. He has announced to the world that the tree they call home is alive. You see, Toby, his family, and the other people in his world are measured in millimeters and literally live in a tree. Toby Alone is chockablock with action, intrigue, and marvelous—if tiny—charac ters who live in an allegorical world with environmental hazards and villains that threaten to destroy the very life that sustains them. The book won the Marsh Award (Great Britain) for children’s literature in translation, France’s Prix Sorcières, and Italy’s Premio Andersen Prize. lmp

Translated by Sarah Ardizzone.