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House Held Up By Trees (2012)

by Ted Kooser(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0763651079 (ISBN13: 9780763651077)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: I hunted this out through my love of John Klassen and his artwork throughout is beautiful, fully complementing the whimsical and deeply melancholy story. Simple yet powerful; we experience the passage of time, loss and the power of nature. Not really a kids picture book in truth. I felt the ending a little slight but really the whole thing is lovely, if not a little sad (the page with the father sitting there watching the sun set is gorgeous and heartbreaking). Recommended.
review 2: This is a story about a father who spent his free time keeping his lawn looking perfect. Every summer, the seeds of new trees would disperse atop his lawn, but he would make sure the trees would not sprout by carefully keeping his lawn free of tree seeds and sprouts. The kids a... morend father grew older, but the father remained adamant over keeping his lawn flawless. Then the kids became adults, and the father decided to sell the house. Nobody ended up buying the house and nature took its course, as tiny trees began to sprout and sparrows began nesting in the house. The house remained this way for a long time until the trees that surrounded the house grew so much that they began to lift the house off its foundation. As the trees grew taller, they pulled the house along with their growing tree trunks. The house that was once on the ground ends up becoming a tree house by the end of the book. This book has stunning artwork. The paintings in this picture book are from many perspectives. The first few pages are painted as if the viewer is hiding behind a forested area. The next page shows an image of the house but from an aerial point of view. The final images of the tree house are shown from the point of view of the ground. I thought it was really interesting that the artist never showed the faces of the characters. The characters were always looking down or faced the other direction. It left the reader with some creative license to imagine what the faces must look like, or what expressions would be present on the characters' faces. This is a good book to teach children about nature and how trees spread their seeds and reproduce. Also, there are some advanced words in this book, so students are presented with a chance to infer meanings of more difficult words. For an art lesson, this is a great book to teach students the difference in the point of view of the art work. For instance, the page where the point of view is from the forest creates this image that the reader is hiding behind the foliage and peeking at this house in a rural village. less

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