Leaf Trouble Review

TITLE: Leaf Trouble
AUTHOR: Jonathan Emmett
ILLUSTRATOR: Caroline Jayne Church
PUB DATE: August 2009

From the Publisher
When he wakes up one morning to find that his home tree is changing, the little squirrel is scared! Why are all the leaves falling off? Quickly he corrals his sister and they gather up the leaves in colourful pawfuls. But try as they may to stick them back on the branches, it’s hopeless: Yellow, orange, red, and brown, all the leaves keep falling down! It’s only when their wise mama explains what happens in autumn that the two little squirrels understand the seasons are changing. Green leaves will sprout anew in spring!

MICHAEL’S THOUGHTS
The illustrations in Leaf Trouble were beautiful. It seemed like they were popping out of the book.

This is a great fall story about the leaves falling and changing color.

Pip is a little squirrel who wakes up one morning to discover the leaves are falling and changing color. He is very scared and panics trying to gather all the leaves to put back into the trees. When he is over whelmed he gets Blossom his sister to help.

Their mother comes up to them to see what they are doing. They tell her and she explains to them how the tree worked really hard to take care of the leaves all summer and now the tree needs a break. The squirrels want the leaves back and she tells them in the spring they will return.

This was a great story that was used to explain why trees loose their leaves. Now if only they had another way to get rid of the leaves instead of me having to rake them.

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