![]() ![]() On the opening page of text, Ferrante establishes the fact that “A little girl loved a wild apple tree.she knew the tree loved her back.” In the same way that a person will turn to a loved one in time of need, the little girl approaches the tree when she needs to raise money to purchase a microscope. Like Love You Forever, The Amada Tree covers a life cycle, but instead of Munsch’s mother/son relationship, Ferrante develops her themes by showing the connection between a child and a wild apple tree. Like Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever, Ferrante’s The Amada Tree is a book that will be more enjoyed and better understood by the adults who are reading the book to children than by the children who are on the receiving end of that reading. ![]() Take a few and perhaps a better idea will come to you.” White-tailed deer, black bears, red foxes, and even little rabbits. “I want to buy a microscope to see the smallest things,” she told the tree. ![]() Thunder Bay, ON: Single Drop Publishing, 2014.Īs the girl grew, she watched blue damselflies flap their bright wings. ![]()
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