The Sibley Guide to Trees (Sibley Guides)

Useful, beautiful, full of great info and makes a lovely coffee table book too. I bought it for my daughter and she loves it!

I love all the books Sibley puts out. This book presents the information well and is very thorough. I would have liked to see a little more illustration of the trees as a whole but I am not disappointed.

This book is an excellent reference for learning to identify trees. Very well illustrated in color, showing leaf shapes, bark types, and views of the entire tree. The author also has maps of north America showing which regions various species of trees grow in. This book is virtually an encyclopedia of knowledge about trees of north America.

Great book

I want to give it five stars because the illustrations are beautiful and you can learn a lot about trees from this book but I give it four because it leaves much to be desired as an identification guide. Some trees have an illustration of the bark some do not and some just have a picture of the leaf and not the fruit etc. I wish it was more detailed in descriptions too but you can’t fit everything in this size book. Buy it.

Best overall tree book that I’ve found. I hope it helps me to identify several of the trees in the Sierras.

This is an amazing book. It is not the most comprehensive guide, but covering more the most common half of tree species in North America, it would be quite unwieldy to tote around if Sibley were aiming at completeness. Sibley has arranged the trees by families, which is quite convenient for narrowing down what you are trying to identify. However, what makes this book such a fantastic companion is how he can pack the most relevant information, mainly in pictorial form, about each tree in a page or two. The illustrations of leaves (often both sides, some in fall colors), bark, twigs, seeds, nuts, acorns, flowers, etc. are geared to helping make a rapid identification. By using pictures, instead of lengthy descriptions, you can instantly compare the tree you are looking at to the species in the book. If you are interested about the trees in your back yard, the local park, or hiking through the forest, this guide can help you find out what you are looking at. Knowing the name, can then be the spring board to find out more our leafy friends.

I received first book in an over sized box as pictured. Cover open and bent, packed with cans and other hard items.I chose return - replace, the second book arrived in an individual package in even worse shape .Beautiful illustrations and detailed descriptions as I expected. Planned as gift but can’t give wrinkledBuy this book from local vendors