Reviews
... The intense personal interest of the author is reflected in the thorough research, attention to detail that brings the subject to life, and the conversational writing style.
CM Magazine
Stinson delivers her usual polished product, crafting a thoroughly researched, well-written text. Tundra hasn't scrimped on the production values, either, so the book is pleasingly laid out and full of photos.
Quill & Quire
Love Every Leaf is the biography of one of the greatest contributors to landscape architecture, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the 2006 recipient of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architecture’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Written by children’s author, Kathy Stinson, this biography tells Cornelia’s remarkable life’s story complete with photographs and plans for the imaginative playgrounds and...
International Federation of Landscape Architects News
Author Stinson posits in this biography of Canada's "grande dame" of landscape architecture that fuelling Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's creative genius is her perhaps unconscious desire to re-create the Eden from which she was expelled.
Oberlander was born into a German Jewish family in 1921 and spent an idyllic early childhood in a large house with gardens of lilacs and copper beech in Berlin. By the age of 11, inspired in no small part by her mother, a horticulturalist, she knew that she wanted to "make parks" when she grew up.
The Globe and Mail