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The Taking Tree: A Selfish Parody (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781442407633)
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xWe all know the story of the "selfless" tree that gave all she had just to make sure a young boy was "happy".
Snore. This is a different tree. This is a different boy. This is a very different book.
The Taking Tree is not so happy when the boy takes her twigs to pick on his sister, or takes her apples to sell for college (she's an oak tree for goodness sake), or when he cuts off her branches to build a house that he burns for insurance money. And the boy is not sorry at all. Ever. In fact, he's kind of a jerk. And the boy asks for more, and more, and more until the oak tree is so fed up she just can't take it any longer. While another story might end sweetly with an old man sitting on a stump. This one does not.
Author: Shrill Travesty
ISBN-10: 1442407638
ISBN-13: 9781442407633
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2010
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.94h x 7.82w x 0.48d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.9
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 140671 / Taking Tree: A Selfish Parody
Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 09/20/2010
School Library Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 94
Snore. This is a different tree. This is a different boy. This is a very different book.
The Taking Tree is not so happy when the boy takes her twigs to pick on his sister, or takes her apples to sell for college (she's an oak tree for goodness sake), or when he cuts off her branches to build a house that he burns for insurance money. And the boy is not sorry at all. Ever. In fact, he's kind of a jerk. And the boy asks for more, and more, and more until the oak tree is so fed up she just can't take it any longer. While another story might end sweetly with an old man sitting on a stump. This one does not.
Author: Shrill Travesty
ISBN-10: 1442407638
ISBN-13: 9781442407633
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2010
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.94h x 7.82w x 0.48d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.9
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 140671 / Taking Tree: A Selfish Parody
Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 09/20/2010
School Library Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 94
By Shrill Travesty
xLucy Ruth Cummins is an author, illustrator, and art director of children's books. She was happily paired with Jean Reidy for both Truman, which was named a New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019, and Sylvie. She also is the author-illustrator of Stumpkin, Vampenguin, Our Pool, and A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals. Lucy has swum in creeks, streams, gorges, rivers, swimming holes, pools (above- and in-ground), lakes (both Great and Finger), decorative fountains, and oceans. Her very favorite place to swim, however, is at her community pool in Brooklyn with her sons and her neighbors.
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