The Taking Tree: A Selfish Parody
Shrill Travesty$16.99
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We 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/19/2010
ISBN: 9781442407633
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.94h x 7.82w x 0.48d
Review Citations: Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 09/20/2010
School Library Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 94
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 140671 / Taking Tree: A Selfish Parody
Reading Level: 2.9 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5
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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/19/2010
ISBN: 9781442407633
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.94h x 7.82w x 0.48d
Review Citations: Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 09/20/2010
School Library Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 94
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 140671 / Taking Tree: A Selfish Parody
Reading Level: 2.9 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5