Reviews

The Family Tree by David McPhail

booksnwhiskey's review

1.0

I really wanted to like this book but I ended up skipping the words of the story and telling my own. It just was too much for my class without actually using a lot of words. I was bored with it and wished that this week when I read it wasn't so chaotic or else I would have read it ahead of time and realized that is was a no go before I started on it.

booksandbosox's review

4.0

http://librarianosnark.blogspot.com/2012/08/picture-book-saturday-27.html

tashrow's review

4.0

This is the story of a very special tree. It was left standing when the rest of the space was cleared to build a house many years ago. This tree would shelter the little house. It witnessed many changes over the years as horse and wagon changed to cars. There were births and deaths on the farm, until finally it was the great-great grandson of the original building of the home who lived there. The tree still stood, strong and straight. But then it was threatened as a new road was planned that would run right through it. The grandson refused to let the tree be cut down, and wild animals join him to keep it from happening. So the road plans must be changed and the tree continues to grow now by the large bend in the road.

Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.