Backmatter material includes additional facts about the tree.Ī lovely 20th-anniversary tribute to the towers and all who perished-and survived.As usual, the book you choose needs to be a book at or near your reading level - usually 100 below to 50 above lexile. Many paintings are cast in a rosy glow, symbolizing that even the worst disasters can bring forth hope. The vivid changes that new seasons introduce are lovingly presented, reminding readers that life unceasingly renews itself. Scenes depicting the towers’ ruins are aptly somber yet hopeful, as they show the crushed tree still defiantly alive. Hazy, delicate watercolor-and–colored pencil artwork powerfully traces the tree’s existence before and after the towers’ collapse early pages include several snapshotlike insets capturing people enjoying the outdoors through the seasons. 11 memorial, it valiantly stands today, a symbol of new life and resilience. By tracking the tree’s journey through the natural cycle of seasonal changes and colors after it was found beneath “the blackened remains,” she tells how, after replanting and with loving care (at a nursery in the Bronx), the tree managed miraculously to flourish again. Through simple, tender text, readers learn the life-affirming story of a Callery pear tree that grew and today still flourishes “at the foot of the towers.” The author eloquently describes the pre-9/11 life of the “Survivor Tree” and its heartening, nearly decadelong journey to renewal following its recovery from the wreckage of the towers’ destruction. 5-9)Ī remarkable tree stands where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once soared. Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s Kids On Strike (2003) and The Journal of Finn Reardon: A Newsie (2003) are excellent resources for readers who want to read more about the newsies. Unfortunately, Brown’s narrative makes a hero out of Kid Blink without considering, in the text or author’s note, accusations that Kid Blink later betrayed the movement. Students might enjoy tracking down sources listed in the bibliography, including newspaper accounts from 1899 and Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives.
Readers and listeners will appreciate the lively writing and the humorous, dramatic illustrations. Brown’s cartoon illustrations are a perfect complement to the text, the signature hollow-eyed, potato-headed characters dramatic in their defiance of the owners of The World and The Journal. Hearst decided to make New York City newsies pay a penny more for each stack of papers to sell, Kid Blink, Race Track Higgins, Crutch Morris, and others led a strike they would stop sales until the price was rolled back.
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