The man who lived in a hollow tree / by Anne Shelby and Cor Hazelaar.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cmISBN:- 0689861699
- 9780689861697
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Natural World | Shelby, Anne | Available | 33111005630054 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Most tall tales are no taller than the teller. This one is taller than a tree - a great-great-grandaddy of a sycamore, just right for moving into, for settling down in and raising children and children and children.
It's a story starting way back in time about one man and something magical happening. Was it his doing? Or nature's?
With a storyteller's lilt and a folk-artist's eye, a writer and an illustrator have made something magical of an Appalachian legend.
"A Richard Jackson Book."
Carpenter Harlan Burch, who builds everything from cradle to casket, plants two trees for every one he cuts down, and when he is very old his sap begins to rise, he grows young again, and starts a family that still lives all over the mountains.