Book 2 in the Margot McMahon Collection, based on the true story of Chicago's McMahon Family. Patriarch Franklin "Mac" McMahon was a celebrated American illustrator and WWII  veteran.  If Trees Could Talk chronicles the family--with seven children--as Franklin carves out his career as a courtroom artist-reporter for the Emmett Till Trial and the Trial of the Chicago Seven, Presidential artist and NASA space program illustrator.