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Title: A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry, Marc Simont ISBN: 0-06-443147-9 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 26 June, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Tree Is Nice
Comment: This book is a good book because it teaches kids how important a tree is to the world. It also teaches them how much fun they can be. Young kids will enjoy the pictures while parents enjoy reading the story to them. I strongly suggest reading this book to someone you love.
Rating: 4
Summary: sweet and simple
Comment: This is a nice book...it tells you about many of the reasons that trees are nice. The only part I didn't like was the part about burning leaves. Not environmentally cool.
Rating: 5
Summary: Create Tree Envy by Planting One!
Comment: The best early readers are those that focus on a subject that a child can easily understand, use simple words, and have illustrations that perfectly capture the words. A Tree Is Nice easily passes those tests. The book is a Caldecott medal winner for its illustrations.
The book explores all of the many benefits that trees bring us. They "fill up the sky," and "make everything beautiful." "Even if you have just one tree, it is nice too." The book goes on to describe the beauty of leaves, the fun of playing in them, and even bonfires with them in the fall when they are at their most beautiful. You can climb the tree, lean things up against the tree, enjoy the shade, be protected from winds, use the sticks for drawing in the sand, and hang swings and flower baskets in the branches. Trees make perfect backgrounds for picnics, too.
My favorite part of the book is the section about planting a tree. Ms. Udry points out that you can put a tree in, and watch it grow. Then you can tell others that you planted it, and they will want to plant one, too. I remember planting some trees as a cub scout, and revisiting them as a middle-aged man and taking great delight in seeing them become a large, leafy oasis in what had been a barren field.
The illustrations are terrific. The book's designer has created a vertically elongated page shape that accentuates the graceful trunks of trees. Half of the illustrations are in color (using watercolors with inked outlines and details) and half in black-and-white. The choices for full color are good ones (fall leaves, being next to a house, and with a picnic). The pen and ink ones with grey washes are very poetic in their simplicity. The design also minimizes the words, which appear almost like a memorial plaque at the base of a tree in an arboretum. The style is very reminiscent of the best simple drawings of the fifties, and provide a nostalgic feeling.
In addition to reading this book to your child, and having your chld read this book to you, you each must plant a tree!
Where else does nature provide well for us, where you can help nature along a little? Perhaps you should consider a bird feeder or bird bath (if you have a yard).
Enjoy the natural sculpture and art all around you!
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Title: The Little Island by Golden Macdonald ISBN: 044040830X Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall, Barbara Cooney ISBN: 0140504419 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Duffy and the Devil by Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach ISBN: 0374418977 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 December, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt, Roger Duvoisin ISBN: 0688082947 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 28 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas, Nonny Hogrogian ISBN: 0805003304 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 March, 1972 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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