The Money Tree

By Sarah Stewart

Book Overview

Miss McGillicuddy's simple country routine continues through-out the year in spite of a very unusual tree growing in her yard.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374350140
• ISBN13: 9780374350147
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Philosophy of the Money Tree

The Money Tree offers an alternative view of what is really important in life. Money begets greed is juxtaposed with the enduring rhythms of nature. What is true comfort? What has lasting value? The story spins an answer by following the main character through a calendar year and illustrating her simple pleasures against the backgroud of a strange tree. The illustrations are magical and the story is timely. One of my very favorites- every 'child' should read it.

A Lesson About What's Important!

This is a great book for putting things in perspective. The main character has a tree in her yard which produces money. She becomes the most popular person in town. Everyone comes to her house to gather it's leaves. By winter she is becoming tired of her greedy neighbors. She cuts the tree down and uses it for something purposeful: to keep warm.