Hundred Feet Tall

A bunny family consisting of two parents and one child finds a little brown seed while out in the woods one snowy day, and the child lovingly takes it home, promising to help it grow. The seed is planted and cared for as it sprouts and continues to grow, all while the family grows as the whimsical illustrations display the mother’s journey through her pregnancy and the newest addition to their family. The tree continues to grow through another winter, growing more in height with “love and light” in the hope of one day standing “at a hundred feet tall.” Paralleling the tree’s growth is that of the community helping to replant it and care for it as it grows in its new plot of earth near the side of the street, below the bunny family’s home. With sheet music at the back, the text of this book is a song set to illustrations packed full of personality and detail, like the open Jack and the Beanstalk book and a Christmas tree in a window. Yet the text itself surprisingly lacks cadence when not being sung, detracting from the meaningful messages of worth, love, growth, and community conveyed through both word and illustrations.