I picked a lot of good books out the week. They were are very different from each other and had very different formats but they all told a good story. Thea's Tree was written all by a compilation of written letters. Thea is supposed to do a science project and she plants a seed in her front yard and is going to watch it grow. Her teacher tells her through an email that she should ask other experts about what she is seeing as the plant grows. Through the story she writes to a Botanist, Arboreal Acquisitions, Curator, and many other people but meanwhile her plant is getting huge and ruining her house. She finds 3 gold coins, a golden egg, golden harp and then sees a giant. It's a story based off of Jack and the Bean Stock. It story took me by surprise because at the beginning I didn't know where it was going, the book summary didn't say anything about a fairytale, but after the plant kept growing I caught on quickly. I thought it was clever how it was written through a bunch of letters to tell a story. The illustrations were very detailed and done in water color so they looked a little sloppy but you could definitely see what was going on. There wasn't a lot of ethnically diverse characters. They are all white. It would be a great spin off to fairytales, like after you read Jack and the Bean stock and introduce different ways the story can be told or how authors write it differently sometimes by adding more detail or extra twists.
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