‘Walking Trees’ book comes alive in Halifax [Video]

Well-known children’s author Marie-Louise Gay is in Halifax this week for the Afterwords Literary Festival and her latest book “Walking Trees” became a reality on Saturday thanks to young readers in the city.

Seven families each pulled a wagon with a tree in it from Halifax Central Library down Spring Garden Road and then planted them at the Halifax Public Gardens.

“We’re going to try to put it into motion here in Halifax the way the book has been written about a girl in the city who gets a tree for her birthday, and she puts it in a wagon and she walks the tree around the neighourhood and provides shade on a very sunny, hot day in the city where she lives,” said organizer Peter Duinker ahead of the event.

Gay said the event was “like seeing a dream come true.”

“To come here all the way to Halifax and have my trees that come from my …