The girl next approaches the apple tree for assistance when, as a young woman, she wants to attend university but lacks the funds to do so.
When the girl’s sales provide enough monies to buy not just the microscope but a chemistry set as well, the girl asks, “How can I show my gratitude?” The apple tree suggests that she plant some of the fallen apples so that “new trees will grow to feed more of the animals.” Not only does the girl do as requested, but she uses her new chemistry set to analyze the soil around the tree and to provide missing nutrients.
The apple tree pushes the girl to think beyond the easy idea of just selling its fruit in its raw state, and the girl responds by making and selling candy apples and by creating wizened applehead dolls from the tree’s fallen fruit. On the opening page of text, Ferrante establishes the fact that “A little girl loved a wild apple tree.she knew the tree loved her back.” In the same way that a person will turn to a loved one in time of need, the little girl approaches the tree when she needs to raise money to purchase a microscope. Like Love You Forever, The Amada Tree covers a life cycle, but instead of Munsch’s mother/son relationship, Ferrante develops her themes by showing the connection between a child and a wild apple tree. Like Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever, Ferrante’s The Amada Tree is a book that will be more enjoyed and better understood by the adults who are reading the book to children than by the children who are on the receiving end of that reading. Take a few and perhaps a better idea will come to you.” White-tailed deer, black bears, red foxes, and even little rabbits. “I want to buy a microscope to see the smallest things,” she told the tree. Thunder Bay, ON: Single Drop Publishing, 2014.Īs the girl grew, she watched blue damselflies flap their bright wings.
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