- A Starred Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens selection
- Named to Resource Links Best of List for 2008
Reviews
... Stinson tells the story of this remarkable woman's life with beautiful prose... Kudos to Kathy Stinson on her first biography and I hope it is not her last.
Canadian Children's Book News
... 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
It is fitting that Cornelia Hahn Oberlander should choose Stinson, a celebrated children’s author, to pen her biography. Written for teens, Stinson’s book reveals a remarkable woman and introduces the profession of landscape architecture to a young audience. On both counts, more books like this are much in need.
Landscapes/Paysages, Spring 2009
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
... Kathy Stinson has done a remarkable job of isolating key moments in Cornelia's past and explaining how those moments were the building blocks of Cornelia's career and life. Stinson's book is beautifully crafted...
Resource Links
Kathy Stinson is one of Canada's most respected children's authors. This book should bring her many new honours.
The Muskokan
It was a pleasure to be introduced to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander through Love Every Leaf. In our normal daily events, her name would not usually cross paths with most people's lives. Yet, the truth is, this one woman has had a profound impact on how humanity has been engaged with the environment for years...
Jewish Book World Magazine
In a clear style, Stinson relates the life of the landscape architect. Inspired by her grandmother's garden, Oberlander decided upon her future career by age 11. By 1939, life for her Jewish family in Hitler's Germany had become so difficult that she and her family immigrated to America. ...Vibrant and creative well into her 80s, Oberlander is an inspiring example of filling a life with what you love.
School Library Journal
Teens concerned with what can be done to improve the quality of urban life and save our environment should find material here to interest them. Highly recommended for school and public libraries.
Ludington Library, Bryn Mawr, PA
Stinson's book... has a wealth of knowledge about the details a landscape architect must consider and Oberlander's modern ideas about play spaces and resource conservation will be welcome to future environmentalists.
Eclectica Magazine Volume 13 No. 2