THE TENEMENT TREE

by Kate Seredy ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A beautiful book, both in its conception and execution, this tells the story of imaginative, dreamy 8-year-old Tino, middle child of an Italian family living in a New York City tenement. Accustomed to the turmoil of city life, Tino found escape in imaginative flights of fancy. And when he went to spend a summer with his artist aunt on her farm, he found that he saw the life around him with creative vision. The great tree was conceivably a city tenement, with its fire escapes and inhabitants. The activities of the small animals had their parallels back home in the people he knew. With his aunt, Tino learned to create an expanding universe and when, at summer's end, he went home he was sensitive to his own most precious gift, a rich and responsive gift for seeing. Here is a might-be-true story, written with an evocative awareness of a child's encounter with nature, and given reality not only in the compassionate text but in the superb craftsmanship of her exquisite wash drawings, softly molded in rich blacks, grays and white. Kate Seredy, author of The Singing Tree, Philomena, and many other books has been absent from the scene too long. This is an enchanting book.

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Publisher: Viking

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: FICTION