Picture a Tree - Hardcover

Reid, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807565261 ISBN 13: 9780807565261

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2013

Synopsis

2015 Magnolia Book Awards Reading List
2014 Green Earth Book Award Short List
2014 USBBY Outstanding International Books List
NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2013

Picture a tree―what do YOU see? Picture a tree, from every season, and from every angle. These wondrous beings give shade and shelter. Now look again. Look closer. The possibilities are endless. In this gorgeous new picture book, Barbara Reid brings her vision, her craft, and her signature Plasticine artwork to the subject of trees. Each page is a celebration, and you will never look at trees in quite the same way again.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Reid is an award-winning author-illustrator known for her work using plasticine. Her previous titles, such as Picture a Tree, Fox Walked Alone, and The Night Before Christmas, were created by spreading and modeling plasticine to create relief images. She lives in Canada.

From the Inside Flap

Explores in words and pictures different ways of seeing and experiencing trees.

Reviews

PreS-Gr 2-Viewers are invited to think about how trees can be pictured: as a drawing on the sky, a skeleton, a tunnel, an ocean, a pirate ship, and more. Reid's Plasticine illustrations are remarkable. They are highly detailed and intricately developed, with layers of texture and color built into multidimensioned insets and spreads. The book is not a guide to learning about trees but rather a lyrical request to explore them in our personal worlds. While the trees depicted are never named, the illustrations contain enough detail for children to identify them with a field guide. The endpapers set the stage with numerous small portraits of trees, the limbs, leaves, and other details. The vibrant pictures will draw in readers, while the text will encourage them to view the world in a different way.-Lucinda Snyder Whitehurst, St. Christopher's School, Richmond, VAα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

*Starred Review* This open-ended picture book begins, “There is more than one way to picture a tree,” and then gives one example after another, written in simple, evocative phrases and illustrated in Reid’s distinctive, surprisingly adaptable style. Trees can be “sun umbrellas” (leafy trees creating shade on a sweltering city sidewalk), a “drawing on the sky” (bare branches curving against a bleak, wintry background), or a “wild good-bye party” (scarlet, orange, and yellow leaves cascading to the ground). While trees are a constant presence in the illustrations, so are the many children who climb them, play around them, and observe them. In the engaging illustration for “A tree can be a high-rise home sweet home,” viewers can see people through six windows of an apartment building, which is partly hidden by a tree housing birds, squirrels, hornets, and other forms of wildlife. Created with Plasticine on illustration board, the pictures have an extraordinary sense of texture and depth of field as well as strength of line and color. From striking double-page spreads to inviting endpapers, these delightful illustrations reward close attention with clever details. Recommended for tree-themed story hours, curriculum units, and art classes, here’s a picture book for all seasons. Preschool-Grade 1, --Carolyn Phelan

Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807565261
• ISBN 13: 9780807565261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Reid Barbara
• Number of pages: 32