Tap the Magic Tree

Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson is a wonderfully crafted picture book about the magic of nature and the changing seasons. It incorporates beautiful collage and watercolor images and allows the reader to lend a hand progressing the story as they flip through the book. It is an interactive story that engages the imagination and observation skills of the reader. The anticipation of what will happen next blends well with the book’s simple text that instructs the readers to tap, shake, wiggle their fingers and blow kisses at a bare brown tree trunk to help it grow. With a surprise on each page, this is a delightful book to read out-loud. Great conversations can be developed about the animals on the page, pollination of flowers to apples, eggs to chicks and practicing basic learning concepts like counting and colours.