Review: Donuts is Delightful!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
Merl is a squirrel who is forced to live alone because all the trees where he lived had been cut to the ground. He searches everywhere for a nut to eat. One day he finds an acorn and wishes for a tree to grow. An oak tree sprouts but it has no leaves or nuts. Still Merl protects his tree and waters it every day. One day Merl goes off to search a park for food and meets a man on a bench eating his lunch. He has no nuts but gives Merl a donut with lemon on top. Merl eats the donut and lo and behold tree sprouts branches and leaves with donuts on the top of the tree! Tourists come from everywhere to see it. Merl gets tired of all the visitors and begins to cry. The branches dry up and wither away. What will happen to the tree and will Merl be forced to leave the forest?This book is written in rhyme. The illustrations by Adam Duff are some of the most beautiful that I have ever seen. Though some of the events in the story line are a bit far fetched, the story lessons are good ones. Older preschoolers and primary grade children will love this book.