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Final Round - 2022 Mock Caldecott Award
By Kristen · 23 posts · 77 views
last updated Jan 23, 2022 07:45AM
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Another winner! Like, THIS VERY TREE by Rubin, this picture book tells the story of the tree nearly destroyed-yet resurrected at the twin towers site. This offering has a bonus with a narrative of a tree's life cycle. You can't go wrong with either book.
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This is a beautiful telling of the 9/11 Survivor Tree’s story depicting relentless strength. The vertical book orientation accentuates the tree’s shape as well as that of the towers and giving the hope that the future's only direction is growth upwards and downwards into the cross-sectioned ground. The playful children and warm red tones are comforting as compared with the page of “blackened remains�. Even the grainy thick paper enhances the theme of nature’s strength. This is stoic and age-appr
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Recently there have been quite a few picture books to come out about the 9/11 Survivor Tree, so it takes a lot to make each one stand out. With this book, what stands out is when the single turn of a page makes you gasp and leave you speechless, you know you've experienced something special.
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3.5
I liked both the illustrations and the text, but I think I would have liked more direct discussion about 9/11 in it. I am still listening to The Oral History of 9/11 so I can appreciate the small details the author and illustrator included. "The perfect blue sky exploded," with papers scattering among the smoke and flame is exactly how the reports described it. ...more
I liked both the illustrations and the text, but I think I would have liked more direct discussion about 9/11 in it. I am still listening to The Oral History of 9/11 so I can appreciate the small details the author and illustrator included. "The perfect blue sky exploded," with papers scattering among the smoke and flame is exactly how the reports described it. ...more
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