?Lou and her friends are BRAVE adventurers.
The story also promotes the joy of imaginative play in the outdoors..
This book makes a perfect choice for a character education discussion about courage or resilience, or a life-skills lesson on facing challenges.
All the while, Lou\'s friends model compassionate friendship by offering to teach her how to climb and then moving the game.
Ultimately, Lou faces her fear, and although she fails, the effort empowers her, encouraging a growth mindset.
With humor and endearing artwork, Spires sensitively portrays Lou procrastinating, making excuses, imagining alternatives and denying she cares.
But is that true, or is this brave adventurer just too afraid to try? This delightful picture book from Ashley Spires, bestselling author of The Most Magnificent Thing, perfectly depicts what children go through when confronted with someThing difficult.
Finally, she tells herself she doesn\'t want to climb the tree.
When that doesn\'t work, she comes up with reasons for not joining them --- her arm is sore, her cat needs a walk, you shouldn\'t climb so soon after eating.
So she tries to convince her friends to play a not-up-a-tree game.
Lou has never climbed a tree before, and she\'s sure she can\'t do it.
This is someThing new.
They rescue WILD animals.? But one day, when they\'re looking for a ship to play pirates in, Lou\'s friend has an idea: ?Up there The tree can be our ship ? ?Ummm ...? says Lou.
They build MIGHTY fortresses.
They run FASTER than airplanes. ?Lou and her friends are BRAVE adventurers
