Review: Stop complaining!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
This was a great story for my boys.  They are 3, 6, and 8.  I think it captured my 8 year old's attention because he was waiting for the moral of the story.  My 6 year old liked it because he thought there was going to be some kind of crisis in the book.  He liked the pictures.  I think it would have been better for him if there were pictures on each page.  He is really into pictures with his story.  The 3 year old listened.  That's as good as we are going to get out of our busybody.  :)The story is about a little cedar tree who doesn't know how good he has it.  He lives under a big cedar tree that protects him from the weather elements.  He complains to his bush friend that the big tree is taking all of the water, sun, and breeze.  The bush tells him to stop complaining because it's nice that he doesn't feel the full burden of what the environment has to offer.  Then a bad storm comes, and shows the cedar how lucky he truly is, and he says that he'll never complain again.  The moral of the story, you never know how good you may have it until faced with the possibility that it may be taken away from you.