![]() ![]() The tree's second life takes it from Independence all the way to the end of the Santa Fe Trail over the course of the warm season in 1834. The first part chronicles the growth and use of a lone cottonwood tree on the Kansas prairie, covering a few centuries in a handful of vignettes the second part begins when the tree, struck by lightning, falls and is fashioned into an ox yoke. ![]() There are two distinct parts of the story that seem all but independent, only slightly connected. ![]() It goes without saying that the illustrations are absolutely top-notch, because this is Holling C. I felt lukewarm about this book through most the 18 weeks we were scheduled to read it, but then toward the end it grew on me, and the final chapters caused me to bump it up from a 3 to a 4. ![]()
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