Be-leaf it!

Ever Steel, 10 years old, with her maple leaf Ian Lindsay, The Vancouver Sun

Eve Steel, 10 years old, with her maple leaf
Photo: Ian Lindsay, The Vancouver Sun

Adapted from The Province

Level 1
January 2011

Eve Steel has the world’s biggest maple leaf.
This leaf is 44 centimetres (cm) wide and 34 cm long.

Eve’s mother says, “With the stem, it’s 59 cm. It’s just a huge leaf.”

Eve found the leaf near her Vancouver home.
Eve says, “It was really windy, and it just popped up.”

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