Key Stage: 2

Description

Format: Super 6 (Guided reading set - 6 copies per set) - Non-fiction

Number of pages: 64

Reading Age: 8-10  Interest Level: 7-12

Notes: This is a book which looks at the life on an old living deciduous tree and through it explores the amazing life of a tree and the creatures that inhabit it. 

"Close to my house, there's a beautiful, huge, spreading sweet chestnut tree. I see it every day. We walk past it on the way to school, and hear the wind rustling through it at night. If the tree wasn't there any more, I would miss it all the time. But it's not just me who would wonder where it had gone! The tree is where squirrels run and hide, and birds nest in the spring. Bees buzz around the yellow flowers in summer, and caterpillars eat the leaves. Ants live around the roots, and sometimes, in the dark, we hear owls hooting. And what if there were no trees at all? It's almost impossible to imagine…"