Up in the Tree with audio CD
by Margaret Atwood
- Commended, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens
- Winner, Child Magazine Best Children's Book Award
Includes audio CD read by Margaret Atwood, with music and additional sound effects
This story about the adventures of two children who live up in a tree is vintage Atwood — playful, whimsical and wry. The perfect integration of words and pictures creates a coherent and delightful whole.
When this charming book was first published in 1978, there was a widespread idea that it was too expensive and risky to publish a children's book in Canada. And so Margaret Atwood not only wrote and illustrated the book, she handlettered the type! The book was created in the old-fashioned way, using only two colors that mixed together to produce a surprisingly large range of tones and textures. The delightful result reminds us that technology hasn't necessarily made things better.
This facsimile edition renders intact the unique pleasures of the original and includes an audio CD read by Margaret Atwood, with music and additional sound effects.
close this panelMargaret Atwood is one of the world's preeminent writers — winner of the Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Governor General's Literary Award, among many other honours. She is the bestselling author of more than thirty-five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. She and her spouse, writer Graeme Gibson, are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Club within Birdlife International. She is an International Vice President of PEN.
close this panel...a whimsical story of two big-eyed kids who, indeed, live in a tree....for those who think Atwood can't do cute, think again.
This could be a collectible — not just because it's Atwood. Because it still rocks....a gem of a book.
A delightful addition for any school, library or personal collection! Highly recommended.
Spare and simple, this 30-year-old title offers a refreshing return to basics.
The lyrical, rhyming text will delight even the youngest children, and early readers will be able to read the book independently. Highly recommended.
...little people will...become enchanted by the sounds and cadence of the words in Up in The Tree.
