Uno’s Garden is a children’s story book written by Graeme Base.
This book is about Uno’s love for the forest and how he decides to live there.
He counts the animals he sees along the way. As the story continues the forest
changes as it is introduced to society and his much loved forest turns into a
village, town and finally a city. The people who lived in the city were
saddened by the boring city life and decided to leave. Uno found the city dark
and abandoned. He had a garden which lived on as Uno didn’t. His children
continued to care for the little collection of trees and plants and slowly the
forest returned and they began to keep a diary of the things they discovered.
Uno’s Garden would be a very good teacher resource as it is an
interactive story book with beautiful illustrations which allow the reader to
search through the setting to find a certain amount of hidden creatures. This
is the type of book that would be used in a lower primary setting as the
illustrations would appeal to younger students and the creatures in the book
are made up words and would be hard for a beginning reader to pronounce. This
is why I think a young student would have trouble reading this story alone and
the teacher reading this book to the class would show off this books full
potential. Uno’s Garden would help to
teach students about the role people play in keeping the environment healthy
and making sure all of the resources are not used up so they can naturally re-generate
and keep the eco-system alive.
Catherine
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