I tutor a Down Syndrome girl named Connie who is exceedingly bright. I was teaching Connie to read. For her 14th birthday I was browsing a botanical gardens gift shop and saw this book, Sky Tree. The text was approximately a level higher than she could read. It showed a tree through all the seasons, in lovely paintings, with text personifying the tree's feelings. For example in the winter the tree feels lonely because the birds have gone.
Would Connie enjoy the story? Nothing happens, except the seasons and the lives of the tree and the animals, the way that nature changes such as the water freezes over. I was sure she would be bored. No people, no action, no storyline really. Pictures that were almost exactly alike except for season changes. But I bought it and as soon as she saw it she was delighted.
