However, his determination and resilience shines through and he continues to care for the tree as he grows older. Unfortunately it’s time for a haircut and the adult world tries to take his small tree away from him. He spends every waking minute finding the best way to care for his seedling. In this magical story a little boy grows his own seedling in his hair and loves it, cares for it and shares many adventures with it. It also shows the adult world and how everything needs to be neat, tidy and regimented. Leaf shows the love of nature that children can have when given the chance.
Children love being given ownership of their own learning and ideas and graphic novels and picture books can allow this creativity to flow. It is wonderful to encourage young readers to let their imagination flow. Leaf contains little language which is fantastic as it allows the reader to form their own version of the story. Stephen Michael King has written some fantastic books that children love and this one is another book for children to enjoy.
The green cover stood out (as I was looking for some more environmentally themed books) so I pulled it off the shelf and quietly read the story. I stumbled across this book whilst I was shuffling through the K section of the picture books. Recommended to children who enjoy wordless picture-books, and to fans of Stephen Michael King. The artwork, which, by necessity, must carry the story, is engaging, and I particularly liked the depiction of the boy's canine companion. I cannot say, in all honesty, that I enjoyed this one quite as much as some of Stephen Michael King's other picture-books - titles like Mutt Dog! and Henry and Amy: Right-Way-Round and Upside Down - but it was still an entertaining little romp. Fortunately for the leafy plant in question, the boy knows just what to do to take care of it, and when the inevitable haircut does come, just where to transplant it. Racing outside to escape his mother, with her scissors in hand, he instead finds himself a planting pot of sorts, as a bird drops a seed on his head, and it takes root and begins to grow. Told almost entirely through images, with the occasional sound-word thrown in, Australian author/artist Stephen Michael King's Leaf is an engaging tale of a young boy whose desperation to avoid a haircut leads to a very odd development.
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