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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 582.16
EAN num: 9780064431477
ISBN number: 0064431479
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 32
Printing Date: June 26, 1987
Publishing house: HarperCollins
Age index: Baby-Preschool
Release Date: June 26, 1987
Sale Popularity Level: 61650
Studio: HarperCollins
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Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up its trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Cows and babies can nap in the shade of a tree. Birds can make nests in the branches. A tree is good to have around. A tree is nice.
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This book seems very old-fashioned. The pages alternate on colour and grey & white. Also, it would be better if it offered some scientific reason for why trees are nice along with the whimsical, children-playing reasons.
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What a joyful book. A wonderful paeon to trees and the wonder they can inspire in kids, adults, the reader. A true arborial appreciation, delightfully rendered artistically by Marc Simont--I can see why this book won the Caldecott. It has aged well, and it carries an important message even today.
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This is a nice book.
It starts out, "Trees are very nice. They fill up the sky".
The picture shows a forest and in the lower corner a boy, lying on the ground, looking up. From a kid's vantage point, trees really do fill up the sky.
It continues, "Even if you have just one tree, it is nice too. A tree is nice because it has leaves. The leaves whisper in the breeze all summer long".
The picture shows a farm, with one tree in a field, and a horse standing under it in the shade...
And so, the beneficial characteristics of trees are touched on, lightly and one by one.
A vintage book, worthy of the Caldecottt Medal it won in 1957.
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A great little book about the beauty of trees. My girl loves trees and she was drawn by the artwork of this book. She especially like a group playing in a tree and the one of the cows resting in the shade.
It's a simple story that talks about the beauty and use of trees. The artwork is far more interesting and as others have mentioned, it won an award for it.
My daughter would love a tree fort. She spoke of it again after seeing the kids in the tree. Unfortunately, our trees are not good for that. At least she helped plant a couple. What was interesting was the fact she talked about doing that after seeing the picture of kid planting a tree.
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Short choppy sentences with one page in colour and the subsequent in grey and white left me wishing this book was done differently. Loving nature, I wanted to really enjoy this story, but I didn't. There were facts thrown in haphazardly with thoughts and there was absolutely no reason for the grey and white harsh transition every other page into color. I just didn't get the concept the illustrator was trying to portray. I did like that the pages were made out of paper that felt like it was recycled just for this tree story. And the introduction of, "Trees are very nice. They fill up the sky." was a nice way to start this book, and the ending of, "They wish they had one so they go home and plant a tree too." leaves you with a positive activity, but the rest of it was drab for me.
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