"A hungry snake. A beautiful brown boy. What more can a young reader ask for?National Book Award winner Jacqueline WoodsonWith its striking cast of forest creatures, One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree is Daniel Bernstroms amusing and original tale of a plucky little boy who is gobbled up by a giant snake.Consuming his victims at an alarming rate, this snake doesnt realize that his captives are planning their escape. In the spirit of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback, the reader sees a cutaway of the snakes belly and can maybe even guess how the tale ends! Classic and contemporary, timeless and fresh, One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree has a syncopated and rhythmically delightful text perfect for reading aloud."

 

This book has been graded for interest at 4+ years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Daniel Bernstrom, a visually impaired writer, loves stories that have rhythm and music; stories, as Uri Shulevitz once said, "are the soundtrack to the child's silent film. " This story of the eucalyptus tree came to Daniel late one night while working as a janitor at a preschool. The eucalyptus tree (a favorite of his mother's), which grows along the coast of Northern California, tickled his tongue and imagination. The animals in the tree populated the preschool where Daniel worked, waiting patiently atop the shelf at the back for the next day of play. The strange combination of a tickly word and an odd assortment of stuffed animals spawned this undulating syncopated story of impossibility, darkness, and hope. Brendan Wenzel is an illustrator whose work often explores the natural world and our relationship to it. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.