The writing will also make it an encouraging experience for an early reader.Įven if you have just one tree, it is nice too. The text will suit a read-aloud to the little ones, without fuss or frolic. They fill up the sky.Įvery detail about a tree that might seem insignificant or intuitive to the adult fills up the pages alongside illustration that obediently portrays the discussed detail. The fact that is was published in 1956 connects the dots. Something about the book gives us that warmth – the thick dirty white paper with rawness resembling recycled material, and the uncomplicated content of the drawings and writing, I think. This allows for generous detailing of the trunks and twisted branches in varying dimensions, in browns that remind us of barks of dark chocolate. Especially the watercolors, they glorify the foliage in varying seasons with splurges of warm greens, sometimes with flaming reds and bright yellows in their midst. Color and black-and-whites alternate ink drawings draped in gray, follow and precede beautiful watercolors. The book is a Caldecott winner and this calls for dissecting the illustration. But its this quality that’s held in all earnestness up until the end that also makes the book enjoyable, without laboring to interpret or analyze. A Tree is nice seems rather too plain for a title for children.
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