Arriba en el árbol/ Up in the Tree

from KellyKnox

Atwood says herself in the introduction that the book is fairly primitive. It's printed only in two colors (and a mix of the two), and she hand lettered it herself. It's a far cry from the super slick glossy kids books of today, which is a value for children to see in itself. It also has a really...

from xuesheng

My son felt that it sometimes didn't make sense because they wanted to go down when they couldn't and then up when they couldn't. I ended up explaining to him the saying that "the grass is always greener." But the children solved their problem in the end.

from ParadisePorch

Atwood's first children's book. Quite charming. I would have been tickled by the thought of living in a tree when I was small.

from DMedwid

Atwood's rhythm and rhyme patterns aren't run of the mill, so this has a nicely different flavour at storytime. The words themselves are formatted to suggest certain types of emphasis for reading out loud, changing your performance from your usual bedtime drone. Daniel loved this one from day one.

from DMedwid

Atwood's rhythm and rhyme patterns aren't run of the mill, so this has a nicely different flavour at storytime. The words themselves are formatted to suggest certain types of emphasis for reading out loud, changing your performance from your usual bedtime drone. Daniel loved this one from day one.