Quick Booktalk
A little girl expresses curiosity about various questions related to trees.
About the Illustrations
Each page has a white background with clean, simple figures done in mixed media (crayon, collage, etc). The girl at the center of the book is drawn as a pair of dot eyes, a few lines for hair, a splotch with arms to suggest a shirt and a simple outline of legs and feet. These simple, abstract illustrations suit the thoughtful, philosophical text.
Story Time Possibilities
This is a quiet book, filled with rhetorical questions. For some audiences, this will be perfect. For others, it will be an invitation to give increasingly silly responses to questions that don't require any answers. It could fit a few interesting themes, including trees, questions, and nature. I'm considering it to round out a story time plan about trees that could really use a quiet book like this to balance it out.
Readers Advisory
The title of this book makes it sound like it might include more factual information than it actually does. The text is really more of a poem that invites readers to think creatively about ordinary things than any sort of fact-based narrative about trees. It would be a great book to inspire a class or homeschool writing project.
Disclosure
I received a review copy of Some Questions About Trees from Atheneum in exchange for an honest review.
