Separately, this book could also be used for classroom discussions about the environmental issues connected to the rate and severity of blackouts in recent years. This book makes a great resource for lessons on community, siblings or growing up. The emotional poignancy is further enhanced by Dušan Petričić’s expressive and detailed artwork. His unique use of the first person to tell the story along with his simple, spare style evocatively relates the feelings the young boy has toward his special corner of the world and his older brother, without being overly mushy. And then, just as unexpectedly, his brother appears, wanting to join him, to savor the magic of the night.#Author Andrew Larsen has created a fantasy-inducing (what child doesn’t pine for a house in a tree?) and emotionally satisfying story that young children will want to revisit again and again.

But then one night the power unexpectedly goes out while the young boy is there by himself, and he’s treated to an amazing view of his neighborhood, blanketed in darkness and lit only by the stars.

His brother is now “too busy with his friends” to come to the tree house at all. In Andrew Larsen’s latest book, The Bird Feeder, a child spends time with his grandmother in her final days while sharing in the small-scale drama happening at a bird feeder outside her. It was the best summer ever.” Sadly, everything has changed this year. “My brother and I spent most of that summer in the tree house. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.As this enchanting picture book begins, a young boy is fondly remembering last summer, when his dad built an awesome tree house in their backyard. Petricic’s pen-and-inks alternate multiframe pages with spreads that reach across the book’s wide length, and feature squiggly-lined characters against dramatic backgrounds (especially during the blackout). With the streets plunged into darkness, the big brother comes into the tree house, and the two play games for hours. Then a neighborhood blackout changes the situation for one more perfect night. So now I’m the king of the castle, the boy narrates-but he looks rather sad about it. His big brother has his own friends and doesn’t climb the tree anymore. Thus, the tree house was built, and once stocked with games and comic books, It was the best summer ever. : In the Tree House (9781554536351) by Larsen, Andrew and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great. He began sketching out spectacular ideas for a tree house, and his big brother joined in, and pretty soon even Dad was excited. The unnamed boy recalls last summer, when his family moved into a house with a yard and, most important, a tree.

In this quietly resonant tale, a boy’s tree house becomes a symbol of childhood itself.

In the Tree House by Andrew Larsen