You climb trees for a living and take care of them like patients — kids simply do not get over this.
How this is different: This isn't a book where your child pretends to be an arborist. It's the book where your child finally understands what you actually do.
Tree work is dramatic, green, and instantly understandable to a child. This personalized book puts your ropes, saws, and careful judgment at the center of a story about caring for living things.
What arborists actually do all day
Inspect trees for disease, decay, and branches that could fall
Climb with ropes to prune high limbs safely
Decide what to save and what has to come down
Plant and care for young trees that will outlive everyone on the crew
How to explain a arborist's job to a child
If your child is 3 or 4
Arborists take care of trees. They climb way up with ropes, cut off the branches that are sick or might fall, and plant new trees that will grow taller than our house.
If your child is 5 to 7
An arborist is a tree doctor. They check for disease and decay, prune the branches that could fall on people, remove trees that are unsafe, and plant new ones in better spots.
The tools kids find interesting
Climbing rope and saddle
Handsaw and chainsaw
Helmet
Wood chipper
Soil probe
What a child would notice at a arborist's work
A parent hanging in a tree, calmly working
Wood chips everywhere
Trees pointed out by name on every walk
What kids learn from a WorkTale Book Company book about arborists
That trees need care like people do
How climbing safely works
Why some branches must come down
What makes a tree healthy
Frequently asked questions
Climbing, bucket truck, or consulting arborist?
We ask and write the scenes to your role.
Will cutting trees seem sad?
We frame removals as care and safety, never destruction.
Every WorkTale book closes with two pages no name-swap personalized book has. First, a "So, what does Mommy, Daddy, or your grown-up do?" page that distills the parent's entire job into one plain-spoken line a child can recite from memory, with no jargon and no job description. Then an "About the Author" page with the parent's real photograph, name, job title, and a short biography blurb, so the illustrated hero is revealed as the real person the child knows. Why the parent is the hero.