Reviews for Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

The average rating for Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-25 00:00:00 Todd Mills While I certainly do much enjoy the bright and expressive collage like illustrations of Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf (and especially of the woodpeckers which just happen to also be amongst my favourite bird species), I personally think that it would have been better and more successful for author and illustrator Lois Ehlert to have either penned a non-fiction book about sugar maples (and woodpeckers) or recounted a fictional tree-based narrative, as the combination of fiction/non-fiction in Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf is in my opinion not executed all that well, has not been rendered all that successfully (and actually even tends to feel rather disjointed and uneven, with the fiction part of Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf more suitable for younger children and the non fiction part definitely more suitable for older children, and perhaps even younger teenagers). Now Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf is definitely informative and still a worthwhile read for (or with) children interested in trees and ecology (and I do much appreciate the included recipe for the bird treat and have, in fact, made it on occasion for the many downy and pileated woodpeckers on my property). However, I really do not find the story part of the presented narrative all that engaging, and really, rather flat and majorly uninspiring (or at least, it feels that way for me and to me). Nevertheless, somewhat recommended, but only in a rather limited fashion (as for me, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf is really and truly just a very basically adequate two star read, and not all that special and spectacular by any and all stretches of my imagination).

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-28 00:00:00 Cliff Otto Ehlert's collage artwork is worth an OOH! and an AAH! as it celebrates the fireworks of fall . . . The story is nothing but the life cycle of a sugar maple tree.