I just listened to a webinar about how there are a lot of picture books about trees lately. This doesn’t bode well for my own picture book which I’ve been working on for the last few years. But it’s better for the kids and hopefully the planet, so this makes me happy.
This is another thing that makes me happy.
The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker is a wordless picture book that takes children (and adults) on a journey from a fantastical past to the illusions of a future beyond our imagination. It’s cinematic in its illustrations and we consequently are gifted with a dramatic adventure of what life is like in different eras of human civilization.
My son was mesmerized by the illustrations and we had fun perusing each picture searching for nature within mankind’s modern civilizations.
It was both beautiful and haunting, and did an accurate job of depicting the lifespan of the earth and our true dependence and vulnerability to nature.
I love this book
***** Five asterisks for excellent read without reading any words.
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