Books about Trees

For our tree theme this past week, we enjoyed quite a few tree books.

Bear's favorite has by far been A Tree for Emmy.

Emmy loves trees, but her favorites are mimosa trees.  She spends a lot of time with her gramma's mimosa tree, but wants her own, so for her birthday, she asks for a mimosa tree.  Unfortunately, you can't buy a wild tree.  The illustrations are whimsical.  I like the mixed media used for them.  I wish the book didn't use the phrases "Dumb old stores" and "dumb old tree."  I just changed the wording a little while I read.  Of course, that doesn't work if your child can read.

Four more fiction books we read (and enjoyed) about trees were 

How the Ladies Stopped the Wind, The man who Lived in a Hollow Tree, The Giving Tree, and The Growing Up Tree.

The Growing Up Tree was Bear's second most requested book.  It chronicles the life of an apple seed planted for a little baby by his mother.  It's a bit sad at the end, as the baby, now an old man, dies, as well as the tree, but this didn't seem to bother Bear.

Most of the non fiction books we ended up with had too much text to hold Bear's attention.  However, we both really enjoyed From Little Acorns...a first look at the life cycle of a tree, and The Tree.

To see what others are reading, visit  What My Child is Reading, Read Aloud Thursday, and Feed Me Books Friday.