Between 1911 and 1917, Tom Thomson painted more than 200 canvases and oil sketches of trees. Although he travelled widely, Ontario’s Algonquin Park was one of his favourite spots to work. Curator and critic Joan Murray’s Tom Thomson: Trees ($24.95 cloth 1-55278-092-9, 128 pp., colour plates, McArthur & Company) is a portable (7 x 8) collection of Thomson’s tree-inspired work. With a brief chronology of the naturalist’s life, Murray’s book makes for a glossy, gift-type primer on the artist. Katja Pantzar