Be Thankful For Trees:
A Tribute to the Many & Surprising Ways Trees Relate to Our Lives
Words by Harriet Ziefert
Illustrations by Brian Fitzgerald
Published by Red Comet Press
on March 29, 2022
Genre: Children's, Picture Books
Length: 80 pages
Ages: 4 - 8 years
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Synopsis:
What gives you a seat, a floor for your feet?
A place you can sit with your family to eat?
The pum-pum of a drum, a guitar's twangy strum...
Tree wood makes music zing, ping, and hum.
Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many items that are made from trees. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of live trees--and the environmental danger to trees posed by forest fires, floods, and deforestation. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well.
This book is printed on responsibly sourced, 100% recycled PSC paper.
Our Thoughts:
Happy Love A Tree Day!
Be Thankful For Trees is a beautifully illustrated tribute to the many ways trees relate to our lives, from the furniture we sit or sleep on to the musical instruments we play to the books we read and more. Would life even be possible without trees?
Broken down into seven main messages, the rhyming couplets in this picture book remind us of the food, shelter, comfort, recreation, and more that we obtain thanks to trees and what life would be like without them.
Can you think of all the ways trees improve our lives?
This seems like a longer read for its age group with eighty pages but the text is very minimal with only a few words per page for most of the book and no more than a sentence or two on a few others.
Be Thankful For Trees would make a great read-aloud for outdoor storytime or 'wildschooling'.
Similar reads:
Bathing in the Forest by Nivola Uya
Forest Magic: A Guidebook For Little Woodland Explorers by Sarah Grindler
The Secret Life of Trees by Moira Butterfield
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