Under My Tree
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
“✭A story filled with pure love and adoration for the rainbow of nature and the opportunities it presents to us.”— School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
A modern take on Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree that celebrates the friendship between a curious child and her favorite tree.
When Susanne leaves her city home to visit her grandmother, she finds a very special tree of her own in the forest. Each time she returns to the tree, she observes something unique about it—from the sheltering protection of its branches to the scratchy surface of its bark.
This is a wonderful introduction to trees for young children that gently cultivates an appreciation for nature. Interwoven in the fiction text are unique facts about trees and simple activities that encourage readers to touch, smell, and observe the world that is all around them. Printed on FSC-certified paper with vegetable-based inks.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This impressionistic story by Tallandiercenters on a city girl, Susanne, who becomes enamored of a tree while visiting her grandparents in the country. The girl announces that her tree is "different from all the rest" and indeed, Fujisawa depicts the deciduous tree more realistically than its more geometric forest neighbors. Susanne becomes increasingly fond of her tree as she discovers a mother owl and her babies in its hollow, hugs its bark ("You have to touch a tree if you really want to talk to it"), climbs its branches to revel in the view from the top, and listens to its music in the wind, as it "sang with her leaves, using the wind as her lungs." Supplementing the lyrical narrative are leaf-shaped sidebars that provide minimal factual nuggets and activities ("There are over 60,000 tree species in the world"; "Run your fingers over the trunk") and encourage readers to explore and appreciate trees. Dominated by a cool palette of variegated blues and greens, Fujisawa's airy illustrations mimic the text's placidity and feature endearing, close-up portraits of the book's tree-hugging heroine. Ages 3 8. (Apr.)
