Tree In The Trail: A Cottonwood Tree Witnesses American History on the Santa Fe Trail for Kids (Ages 10-12)

Holling does great work with the illustrations and even better work with the stories he tells. I learned a great deal about the American west reading this children's book. The drawings in the margins are like an encyclopedia of knowledge about the artifacts and culture of the American West. Must reading for every American.

This book was part of my children's geography homeschooling. What a fun, interesting book. it would be even more interesting if it were Canadian :) - but I really enjoyed the book, and so did my children. We colored maps, adding on the places mentioned in the book, drew our own pictures of the tech (flintlock guns, the yoke, stockades), jotted down information in our illustrated notebooks, and it was a fun little addition.

Lovely book, lovely illustrations, A4 size too which was a nice surprise,

This is a great history book for explaining the plains and the way the buffalo were everywhere before the people were there and then continues through to a more modern-day Santa Fe. It is from the viewpoint of a tree and begins with a young Native American protecting the tree from the buffalo. We read one chapter a night and my daughter and I loved it. A chapter is usually around a page or so and there are lovely illustrations to go with each one. It was written quite awhile ago, but will not grow old.

this is a wonderful book, which captures the history of the West through the narrative of the tree.