One Small Place in a Tree
Author: Barbara Brenner
Illustrator: Tom Leonard
Ages 4-8
One Small Place in a Tree is a very interesting book in that it explores a forest by examining a single hole in a oak tree. Leonard's colorful pictures bring us into this forest so that we can watch what is happening. Brenner simply and precisely explains to us what we are watching as if she was taking us on a field trip to this actual tree.
We witness a bear scratching a tree, bugs digging small holes into those scratches, birds pecking deeper holes into the bug holes, various animals using the ever expanding hole as a home or a nest, to the eventual fall and further decay of the oak tree. Even after the tree has fallen she shows us how this tree continues to be important to the forest.
I would recommend this book for young children interested in nature and animals. One Small Place in a Tree would make an excellent read aloud book to introduce a science lesson about animal habitats or plant life cycles.
Illustrator: Tom Leonard
Ages 4-8
One Small Place in a Tree is a very interesting book in that it explores a forest by examining a single hole in a oak tree. Leonard's colorful pictures bring us into this forest so that we can watch what is happening. Brenner simply and precisely explains to us what we are watching as if she was taking us on a field trip to this actual tree.
We witness a bear scratching a tree, bugs digging small holes into those scratches, birds pecking deeper holes into the bug holes, various animals using the ever expanding hole as a home or a nest, to the eventual fall and further decay of the oak tree. Even after the tree has fallen she shows us how this tree continues to be important to the forest.
I would recommend this book for young children interested in nature and animals. One Small Place in a Tree would make an excellent read aloud book to introduce a science lesson about animal habitats or plant life cycles.
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