You must have read 'The Giving Tree' or something on similar lines. Each culture has a variation of the ever giving tree story. 'The Wondrous Tree' too is ever giving but counters the controversy of 'The Giving Tree' by having its own needs, for companionship and feeling happy when they are fulfilled by a family's moving to the hill.
Most of the book is very enticing for toddlers too, even though the book is meant for age 5 -18. The pictures are worth mentioning. The pictures endow the tree with an animation that reflects the anthropomorphic self of tree with all its fears beforehand of crossing the bridge. The side pyramid of bees, birds growing and leaving the tree with an empty nest syndrome are illustrated very well in light colours in a minimal style. With each new animal on the tree, every alternate page, you get an opportunity to introduce your kids to a new animal, its needs and the symbiotic relationship (even though its fictional in this story).
I like the story for upending the one sided relationship of tree and humans.
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