The Happiest Tree: A Story of Growing Up by Hyeon-Ju Lee has a mature theme. The ideas of how sweet and harsh life is might be above the traditional picture book crowd. As is the fact Lee is speaking of how there is happiness, sorrow and pain in life as we grow. The idea is simple at first look: the tree is growing and is a voyeur looking at the people on each floor. Time is shown to pass by the fact the tree (the narrator of […]