This book was a nice child-friendly book about trees. It shares all the important things that trees are used for, and why they are nice to have. The book is a Caldecott Award Winner with pictures that add a lot to the words. Every other page is colored, and so when it is a colored page it is really accentuated. The author uses simplicity to convey to a child the importance of a tree and their usefulness.
As a teacher I might use this book for an Earth Day project, or if we were talking about the environment. Every child has seen a tree, but many might not have thought about all of their different uses. A teacher could read this book to introduce a lesson about trees and nature and have students come up with their own list of uses for trees. Since the book tells the readers how they can plant a tree and watch it grow, it might be a fun class project for each student to plant their own type of plant so they can observe how they grow.
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