21 Things to Do With a Tree: An outdoor activity book

by Jane Wilsher, Martin Stanev (Illustrator)

Overview

A fresh and fun outdoors activity book to learn about and make friends with your very own (chosen) tree! 

First, select the friendly wooden giant that you want to get to know, then meet and explore it more fully with 21 games and activities, all taking place in the great outdoors.

Hug your tree, rub its bark, ask your tree how old it is and meet the animals that make their homes in its branches.

You can also take a bath with your tree (a forest bath that is!), play games together, and make forest art.

​This playful approach to an outdoor activity book supports learning, helps foster a vital bond with nature and stimulates creative and imaginative play for children of 6 and over.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711280540
Publisher:	Ivy Kids Eco
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 11.15(h) x (d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jane Wilsher is an author and editor based in London. She has over 20 years’ experience publishing and making award-winning best-selling children’s books for all ages.

Martin Stanev is an illustrator and author based in the UK. His work combines simplified shapes, playful lines, and limited color palettes, and is often inspired by vintage illustrated books, historical periods, the natural world and childhood nostalgia. Martin's debut picture book The Planet in a Pickle Jar was selected by The Guardian as a Best Children's Book of 2021 and has been translated into ten languages worldwide. Martin also illustrated 21 Things to Do With a Tree, an eco-friendly activity book published by Ivy Kids in September 2023.

Table of Contents

Here are 21 leaf-loving, trunk-hugging things to do with a tree...
Shout HOORAY for trees!
Choose your tree
Meet your tree
Hug your tree!
Draw a portrait of your tree
Rub your tree’s bark
Ask your tree, “Are you young or old?”
Ask your tree, “How tall are you?”
Talk leaves with your tree
Watch your tree over time
Take a bath with your tree
Breathe in with your tree
Meet your tree’s animal friends
Look at your tree’s seeds
Ask if it’s a fruit tree
Plant a new tree
Play games with your tree
Make a house together
Climb your tree!
Create art with your tree
Thank your tree
Look after your tree
 

Editorial Reviews

"A great interactive introduction to trees that will help children appreciate their many qualities and value."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-09-23
Encouragement to adopt a tree, learn about trees in general, and appreciate and care for the trees in our world.

Wilsher cleverly folds in lots of learning and vocabulary while introducing children to all things arboreal. After beginning the activity book with the direction to choose a tree, the author moves from there to different things kids can do with their chosen friend: observe it, learn its parts, draw it, hug it (inviting others to join in if one person can’t reach all the way around the trunk), make bark rubbings, determine its age and height, examine its leaves, identify it, climb it, create art (scavenging from the ground, not picking live twigs or leaves), make a treehouse, play games with it, thank it, care for it, and look for seeds, fruit, and animals. The activities call on children to use different senses and skills to engage with the tree they’ve selected, and some of the options involving their tree’s fruit or seeds may require the kids’ power of observation over the course of multiple seasons. Stanev’s charming illustrations use spot, full-page, and double-page illustrations to depict steps, cycles, seasons, and many different types of trees. People depicted (mostly children) are widely diverse and include a wheelchair user and hijabis. Adult supervision and help are encouraged where appropriate.

A great interactive introduction to trees that will help children appreciate their many qualities and value. (Nonfiction activity book. 4-10)

Kirkus Reviews