The text provides information on nasty Neanderthals, awesome archaeologists, curious cave paintings, what stone age people used instead of toilet paper, why a hole in the skull is good for headaches, and how to make a stone age mummy. Colourful, textured gumdrops, raised-line drawings, and scented stickers illustrate The gumdrop tree . This book is about a child's dream come true - a tree which grows from a gumdrop she plants. The raised-line drawings depict the growth of the gumdrop tree. The gumdrops are shown as the child places them in a row, circle, square, and other configurations before she eats them.
Scented stickers depict the flavours of the gumdrops.
Words in this story capture the poetry of a range of tactile experiences - soft, bumpy, smooth, fluffy, crunchy, hard, squishy, stretchy, tickly, cold, warm, curly, sticky. Reclosable envelopes on the book's pages can be filled with objects to illustrate each experience. Common objects for each experience are suggested but not included. From one to 10, the jellybeans appear in rows for easier counting. Each page features a new number and flavour.