Pistes d'exploration

Read along and follow the instructions given in the book.

Identify the different seasons in the book. Talk about what happens to the tree in each season.

Make a lift-the-flap book. Write and illustrate what happens to the tree in each season. 

Choral read along with the story.

Predict what will happen after each action.

Act out the story using gestures and sounds.

Make posters of the four seasons. On each poster, include illustrations with as many seasonal features as possible.

Press Here, Beautiful Oops!

Mots-clés

Picture book , apples , interactive books , life cycles , nature , seasons , stories in rhyme , trees

Commentaire descriptif

“There’s magic in this bare brown tree. Tap it once. Turn the page and see.” And so begins this interactive read-aloud in which the reader is invited to become the magician who helps a single tree change with the seasons. As the story progresses, children are asked to perform other actions such as patting the leaves or rubbing the trunk. And the magic continues through the summer: leaves sprout, then blossoms, followed by flowers and red apples. The autumn leaves deepen their colours and eventually fall, making way for the snow of winter. The circular narrative ends with a new nest and a pair of birds perched on the same bare brown tree seen at the beginning of the story. The simplicity of the collage and watercolour illustrations is mirrored by spare but evocative rhymed text: “Rub the tree to make it warm. Touch each bud and see what forms.” Much of the story unfolds on white pages, but each season features at least one attractive full-colour page as well: ice blue for winter, pink for spring, etc. This engaging story will have young nature lovers jiggling, wiggling and shaking their way through the life cycle of a tree, time and time again.