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product_id: 154116490
title: "Once There Was a Tree"
brand: "gennady spirin"
price: "₱916"
currency: PHP
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
category: "Books"
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# Once There Was a Tree

**Brand:** gennady spirin
**Price:** ₱916
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Once There Was a Tree by gennady spirin
- **How much does it cost?** ₱916 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

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			        		Grade 2-4 With its exquisite endpapers, elaborate picture borders and richly detailed oil paintings, Once There Was a Tree seems to hold great promise. But a ponderous narrative and a didactic conclusion mar the book's potential. The story focuses on a tree which is struck by lightning during a violent storm. A woodsman discovers the broken tree and saws it down to its stump. One by one, a beetle, ants, a bear, a titmouse, a frog and an earwig make the stump their own. But who really owns it? "Maybe the tree stump belongs to allthe beetles and the ants. . .and even the man. All must live together." The message is conveyed without subtlety; the narrative is further impaired by its rigidly sequential telling. Lacking both character development and any meaningful exchange between characters, the story falls flat. Indeed, children will wonder what happened to the bear when the bird came along, or to the bird when the frog took over. Devotees of the illustrated book will savor the elaborate design of this one, but the story's heavy theme (possibly due to its Russian origin) will limit its appeal to children. Anne E. Mulherkar, formerly at District of Columbia Public LibraryCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A wonderful book for fostering a love for and understanding of the natural world.
            
*by C***A on February 23, 2017*

A tree is struck by lightning and dies but that isn't the end. The story follows the succession of animals that make use of the stump as it decays with beautiful detailed pictures. Each animal thinks of the stump as their own and the book ask the reader to think about who really does own the tree.  Perhaps a bit heavy handed but it is still a wonderful book for fostering a love for and understanding of the natural world.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For the Very Young
            
*by N***M on December 19, 2014*

Lovely tale about the circle of life (perhaps the retelling of an oriental folk tale).  Simplistic in its presentation but with a much deeper moral theme.  Easy for the very young to appreciate.  A little disappointing if you are a Spirin fan.  Good , but not his best work.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a (socialist) childrens book
            
*by T***A on August 27, 2019*

Great theme and lessons for children. Teach them early that private property is a spook to be ignored.
  

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