Review: A really good tale to tell children because of its lessons
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 14, 2011
While only a very short tale, the story's message is a powerful lesson for children and they will enjoy the adventure that the story tells. A mischievous and thoughtless fairy was playing with leaves and without thinking of the consequences of her act, she waved her wand and created a leaf man out of the leaves, and wandered off leaving the leaf man to his fate. Leaf man knew that he had only one day to live. When the sun set, he would be returned into a pile of leaves. He thought of all kinds of things he could do, but then when he saw a lost girl, he spent his only day as a human saving her. Parents may want to ask their child, as they read the tale to them: Do you think that the leaf man did the right thing by giving up all of his dreams to save a girl? Why do you think so? What do you think about the way the girl reacted to the leaf man after he turned back into leaves? Do you think that later in the girl's life, when she had children, her children would understand how she felt about the leaf man?