![]() That work was called a classic by Publishers Weekly. ![]() His book ''The Dead Tree'' (1972), for children ages 4 to 8, was named an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Irma Simonton Black Award of the Bank Street College of Education. By that time, it noted, he was the sole author of more than 30 children's books and had written a score of book-length adaptations of folk tales. Tresselt's books had sold over a million copies, the multivolume reference work ''Contemporary Authors'' reported in 1980. ![]() Tresselt, a children's book author who won praise for describing and explaining nature to the young, died on July 24 at his home in Burlington, Vt. ![]()
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