OUTSTANDING! A yearning to be outside near an oak tree, so I can witness the stages of an oak tree’s life cycle for myself, overcomes me as I look through this book! The full page photos, in the 7″ X 6″ book, immediately grab the reader’s attention with their detail, while the 2 or 3 sentences on the opposite page refines what the reader in seeing.

The photo on page 8  of the root emerging from the cracked acorn and the photo on page 11 with the hull of the acorn still attached shows , “A small shoot, or stem, pushes up from the acorn. Tiny leaves unfold on the shoot.”  (p. 10) Awe. Silent wonder.

One of the five “Fun Facts” sprinkled throughout the pages states, “About one out of 10,000 acorns will become an oak tree.” (p. 25) while a squirrel munching on an acorn stares the reader down from the opposite page. Shhh, quiet contemplation.