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8th out of 39 books
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Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
by
Lois Ehlert
Lois Ehlert uses watercolor collage and pieces of actual seeds, fabric, wire, and roots in this innovative and rich introduction to the life of a tree. A special glossary explains how roots absorb nutrients, what photosynthesis is, how sap circulates, and other facts about trees. “Children will beg to share this book over and over.”--American Bookseller
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
September 15th 1991
by Harcourt Children's Books
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I just read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf and I was hoping for more. When I first saw the cover and the first couple pages I thought the artwork was great; the leaf cutout and the pretty fall colors. After a few pages unfortunately I began to lose interest. My favorite part wasn't a part of the story. It was how to make a bird treat. I plan on making this with my daughter, mom, and dad at their house which has an abundance of trees and many birdhouses. I appreciate what the author was doing, teaching ab...more
Sep 08, 2010
Abigail
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Young Tree Lovers
Recommended to Abigail by:
Kathryn
Shelves:
picture-books
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"Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf" is a beautiful picture book intended for primary readers. It has won many awards including the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award. I gave this book a 4-star rating. "Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf" is written from the perspective of a young child who is telling the story of his beloved sugar maple tree. The little narrator takes the reader from its most early stage as a wind blown seed to its present state as a lovely tree in his yard. The illustrations in this book are absolutely...more
“Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf” is an informative children’s book by Lois Ehlert and it is basically about the life cycle of trees being told through creative illustrations. “Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf” may have interesting illustrations and great information on the tree cycle, however the story might be a bit too bland for many children to handle.
I did enjoyed Lois Ehlert’s illustrations as they were both colorful and creative at the same time. I especially loved the way that Lois Ehlert used real objects s...more
I did enjoyed Lois Ehlert’s illustrations as they were both colorful and creative at the same time. I especially loved the way that Lois Ehlert used real objects s...more
Interesting story that talks about the life cycle of a tree and some of the birds and animals that make the tree part of their home. Creative illustrative style.
This book was selected as one of the October 2011 - Autumn and Halloween reads at the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.
This book was selected as one of the October 2011 - Autumn and Halloween reads at the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.
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Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf is a realistic picture book recommended for students in kindergarten through second grade and is a Reading Rainbow book and an American Bookseller Pick of the List. It is about a child and the sugar maple tree the child planted. The child watches the tree grow through all of the seasons, as they grow up together. The illustrations are done in full color with the use of watercolor collage, leaf shaped diacuts, actual seeds, fabric, wire, roots, among other things to bring to...more
This is a great book by a great author. You can read this book at any time of the year but it would be especially great in the fall. This book teaches how trees grow, and how we can plant them in our own back yard. This book also teaches the life cycle of a tree, and how it changes during each season. And, talk about great new vocabulary for the children. I like how throughout the book the pictures are labled with the name, like the "black-capped chickadee". It also gives the names of diffrent t...more
Sep 24, 2010
Lisa Vegan
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
those who have sugar maple trees on their property or in their neighborhood
Recommended to Lisa by:
Abigail
This is one of the books for October’s Autumn/Halloween theme at the Picture Books club, one of the Children's Books group's clubs. Of the six monthly books for this club, I’d read two and I’m waiting for three to arrive. This is the first one I’ve read specifically for the club.
Well, I thought I was going to love this when I opened the book and saw a leaf shape cut out of yellow over orange (I am often easily entertained) and I did like this book, but I wasn’t wowed.
I liked the non-fiction part...more
Well, I thought I was going to love this when I opened the book and saw a leaf shape cut out of yellow over orange (I am often easily entertained) and I did like this book, but I wasn’t wowed.
I liked the non-fiction part...more
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In this book, a young child tells the readers about his tree's journey to his house. He talks about how the tree grows and changes through the seasons. It's a pretty good book to read. Plus it has some really cool crafts and activities to do in the back of the book!
Learning Extension: This book could be used in a science lesson. While learning about plants and trees, this book could be read at circle time. After reading this, the class would draw pictures of the different stages the tree goes th...more
Learning Extension: This book could be used in a science lesson. While learning about plants and trees, this book could be read at circle time. After reading this, the class would draw pictures of the different stages the tree goes th...more
As in other Lois Ehlert books, the pictures in this story are attention grabbing. This is a story of a much loved tree and the journey that the tree has taken from a seed falling to the ground, to the garden nursery to a home. The reader gets to see how the tree grows along its journey and can feel how much love is felt for the tree. I love that the book not only provides the journey of the tree, but also gives the reader lots of information for selecting, planting and taking care of their own t...more
In the world of electronics that we live in today, what a great story to get children thinking about and exploring nature. A great lesson in how trees are born or harvested, how to plant them and the introduction of birds and how signifigant tress are to them. The explanation of seeds and how things in nature evolve from them really stood out for me.
Learning extension; Children love to watch things grow so why not plant a tree in the community as a class. Create bird treats for children to take...more
Learning extension; Children love to watch things grow so why not plant a tree in the community as a class. Create bird treats for children to take...more
Summary
This book talks about a child and how much this child loves this maple tree. The child talks about the process of how the tree was much older than he/she was. Then it goes through the process of how the tree got from growing naturally into the woods, then picked and replanted at a nursery, until finally one day the child came with the father and picked out the tree and took it home to their house to be planted. The child loves how much the tree changes colors in the fall and all of the an...more
This book talks about a child and how much this child loves this maple tree. The child talks about the process of how the tree was much older than he/she was. Then it goes through the process of how the tree got from growing naturally into the woods, then picked and replanted at a nursery, until finally one day the child came with the father and picked out the tree and took it home to their house to be planted. The child loves how much the tree changes colors in the fall and all of the an...more
Review: This is a great book to teach children about maple leaves. It shows the children the different seasons. How during the fall, the leaves change colors and then they lose their leaves for winter. Read Leaf, Yellow Leaf teaches children the different stages maple trees go through. The illustrations in this book are very good.
Learning Experience: Go outside and collect different colored leaves. Put the color leaf under white construction paper and trace the leaf with a crayon. Go back and f...more
Learning Experience: Go outside and collect different colored leaves. Put the color leaf under white construction paper and trace the leaf with a crayon. Go back and f...more
This book is full of information about leaves and animals and trees. It is a great book to teach for the fall time. The book is colorful and simple and is a great read for the primary ages. I also like how in the book, the illustrater labels pictures that way the children can know the correct term for the picture that they see.
Learning Experience:
For Red Leaf Yellow Leaf I would have the children learn about how and why leaves change colors. We would talk about the chlorophyll and what it is an...more
Learning Experience:
For Red Leaf Yellow Leaf I would have the children learn about how and why leaves change colors. We would talk about the chlorophyll and what it is an...more
The book was good, the perfect time to use it would be during the fall and spring seasons. The book pretty much tells the life cycle of trees/leaves. I really liked the artwork on it, its interactive, they are leave cutouts in certain pages, and the colors really get your attention. It is very vocubalary enriched, and I'm sure can learn a lot of new words from this book.
An activity I would do is that the student and I, will go out and plant a tree.The book was pretty informative on how to plant...more
An activity I would do is that the student and I, will go out and plant a tree.The book was pretty informative on how to plant...more
When I read this book “Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf”, I was happy instead children because this book useful and instructive in classroom. Also, it has a lot of information about plant, and children can understand very easily through this book. This book has very good illustration in detail each page, so children can learn many things combine well with reading in this book.
Extension: After read this book, make a bird treat in classroom. Write their name on the bird treat, and hang on a tree in school g...more
Extension: After read this book, make a bird treat in classroom. Write their name on the bird treat, and hang on a tree in school g...more
Summary:
This book takes the reader through the process of a tree, specifically a maple tree, growing and eventually being purchased from a garden store and planted at a home. The reader learns about what it takes to grow a tree and what a tree does during the year. An added feature of this book is the terms that are labeled on the pictures to get a better learning experience.
Response:
I enjoyed this book because it has leaves over the cover and I personally love finding the most beautiful leaves...more
This book takes the reader through the process of a tree, specifically a maple tree, growing and eventually being purchased from a garden store and planted at a home. The reader learns about what it takes to grow a tree and what a tree does during the year. An added feature of this book is the terms that are labeled on the pictures to get a better learning experience.
Response:
I enjoyed this book because it has leaves over the cover and I personally love finding the most beautiful leaves...more
This is a great book! It teaches you how to plant and care for a tree and the significance of the leaves on trees. The reader will learn how the leaves change colors which will also introduce the change of the seasons. There is lots of information to look at when the story ends at the back of the book.
Lesson: This book can be included in the lesson on science. The teacher can introduce in a large setting the stages of tree growth and then move on to smaller groups to go over details of caring fo...more
Lesson: This book can be included in the lesson on science. The teacher can introduce in a large setting the stages of tree growth and then move on to smaller groups to go over details of caring fo...more
This story uses the colors of the leaves to describe fall in a simple way. The changes of the colors on the pages is very inviting to young children. I would use this book for the fall season. By showing the children and explaining how the colors of the leaves and trees change.
To further help show them the change of the season, we could go outside and collect things that only are seen in the fall and discuss why they are only seen in the fall and not other seasons. We could also discuss differe...more
To further help show them the change of the season, we could go outside and collect things that only are seen in the fall and discuss why they are only seen in the fall and not other seasons. We could also discuss differe...more
The story tells about different types of weather we have and they are winter, spring, summer, and fall. It is cold during winter and sometimes, it snowed. We put on our jacket and mitten during winter. The leaves sprout up during spring and during summer, the leaves are bushy and green. It is always fun playing outside during summer and fall. It is not too cold during fall and it rains a lot
Learning extensions: Teacher takes the children to the playing ground and asks the children the weather we...more
Learning extensions: Teacher takes the children to the playing ground and asks the children the weather we...more
This account of a child's experience with planting a beloved tree makes for a GREAT read! I found myself enjoying the extras that the author included in the book, such as descriptions of specific types of trees and gardening supplies in the illustrations. Informative, eye catching, and beautiful--this book does a fantastic job of telling a realistic experience of planting. I find it especially appropriate and fun to use this as a read aloud when learning about plants because it is very didactic...more
I enjoyed reading red leaf,yellow leaf. The artwork was very detailed and realistic. My favorite parts from the book were how there were labels for different things, like the roots, different birds etc. I also enjoyed the facts in the back. This would be a good book to read during the fall season.
Learning extension- After reading the story, i would take the children outside to see if they can find any maple trees, different leaves, birds, etc. The children will be collecting the different leaves...more
Learning extension- After reading the story, i would take the children outside to see if they can find any maple trees, different leaves, birds, etc. The children will be collecting the different leaves...more
Oct 05, 2010
Brenda
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommended to Brenda by:
Children's Book club Halloween/Autumn theme
Shelves:
picture-books
At first I expected this book to be about the changing of seasons or Autumn because inside the front cover there is a cut out of a leaf amongst a pile of yellow leaves. My son and I quickly determined that this book is more about the author writing about her maple tree, its parts and how it was planted. My son’s favorite illustrations were the ones that included the Black capped Chickadees, Squirrels and Downey Woodpecker eating suet from the tree. I think this book would work well when discussi...more
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Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert, tells the story of a sugar maple tree and the young child who planted it. The story begins with the young boy looking out the window as he sees many sugar maple seeds flying around his backyard. As the seasons pass he notices that the sugar maple seeds begin to grow. One day as he glances to his backyard he notices that nursery workers have come to the woods to collect the tree sprouts. He explains how the trees are then tended for as well as measured, marke...more
The colorful images in this book are fantasic! They are created with lots of different items including ribbons, paint, and paper. The story tells the life of a tree - seeds are taken from a wild tree and grown up for the narrator to eventually take home and plant. There is actually some good information in this book about gardening and birds. There is even an appendix at the end of the book to explain in better detail the terms that were used. I could see this book being a favorite from children...more
I absolutley love the watercolors and detail in this book. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf is a perfect book to read during the changing of the seasons and to get started with fall activities! I really enjoyed this book.
Learning Experience: Let's go outside and see what kind of different colored leaves we can find. First we'll talk about what kinds of changes take place outside when it turns fall. And what kinds of clothes we wear in fall, what holidays are in fall, and decorations for fall.
Learning Experience: Let's go outside and see what kind of different colored leaves we can find. First we'll talk about what kinds of changes take place outside when it turns fall. And what kinds of clothes we wear in fall, what holidays are in fall, and decorations for fall.
This is a very appropriate reading to talk to the children about seasons. One of those is Autumn, where trees loose their leaves, but before that happens, they change colors. The book offers variety in vocabulary and the illustrations are very colorful.
Extension:
This activity is to be performed in Fall. Ask the children to pick leaves in different colors and shapes. Let them dry for about a day, and then make with them leaf prints. It is a wonderful science experience.
Extension:
This activity is to be performed in Fall. Ask the children to pick leaves in different colors and shapes. Let them dry for about a day, and then make with them leaf prints. It is a wonderful science experience.
1.Very large print, very bold illustration the illustrations offers some real items found within story pages.
2.Great book for the fall.
3.This book can help launch extended vcabulary for students when talking about trees and leaves.
Extended Activity
(needs to be planed in advance)
I would like to have this story extended by having someone to come in from the local nursey. They will bring in a small maple tree sapling for the children to touch and explore. I would like for them to talk about the pa...more
2.Great book for the fall.
3.This book can help launch extended vcabulary for students when talking about trees and leaves.
Extended Activity
(needs to be planed in advance)
I would like to have this story extended by having someone to come in from the local nursey. They will bring in a small maple tree sapling for the children to touch and explore. I would like for them to talk about the pa...more
Review
Easy book to read. The book has beautiful pictures of Spring, Summer, Autum, and Winter. Children will learn the life cycle of trees.
Learning Experience
*Take the children on a walk to collect different types of leaves.
*Ask the children to work in small groups to sort the leaves.
*Encourage the children to develop their own characteristics fro sorting.
*When children have finished, invite them to share their reasons for choosing their leave groupings.
Easy book to read. The book has beautiful pictures of Spring, Summer, Autum, and Winter. Children will learn the life cycle of trees.
Learning Experience
*Take the children on a walk to collect different types of leaves.
*Ask the children to work in small groups to sort the leaves.
*Encourage the children to develop their own characteristics fro sorting.
*When children have finished, invite them to share their reasons for choosing their leave groupings.
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