1. The Red Tree by Shaun Tan
Amazing Illustrations.
When a child awakens with dark leaves drifting into her bedroom, she feels
that sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to, and things
go from bad to worse. Feelings too complex for words are rendered into an
imaginary landscape where the child wanders, oblivious to the glimmer of
promise in the shape of a ti ny red leaf. Everything seems hopeless until
the child returns to her room and sees the red tree. At that perfect moment
of beauty and purity, the child smiles and her world stirs anew. Shaun
Tans illustrations are remarkable for the way they combine an d react upon
each other. He creates an otherworldly labyinth of visual ideas joined with
the familiar immediacy of the little child, and condenses them into scenes
of extraordinary depth and insight. Every child will appreciate the books
life-affirming message but it will be equally successful with all readers.
With sensitivity and wonder, the evocative images in The Red Tree open a
window to our inexplicable emotions and tell a story about the power of
hope, renewal and inspiration.

2. The Red Tree is what every one of us forgets at times. I am sure this story
happens to all, and this book explains wonderfully and simply that there
will be hard times and we must keep on. I believe it is important for
children to understand that.
The illustration is gorgeous. The story reminds me of "Lines composed a
few miles above Tintern Abbey..." by Wordsworth:
These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye;
But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mi d the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind,
With tranquil restoration: -feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered, acts
Of kindness and of love.
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