A very cute story!
Customer Rating: 
Reviewed by Cayden (age 4) and Max (age 2) Aures and Mom for Reader Views (9/08)
"Fletcher and the Falling Leaves" is about a little fox named Fletcher who is concerned that his favorite tree is starting to lose leaves. He doesn't know what is going on and tries to help it by attempting various ways to reattach its leaves.
Max: "Leaves fall down!"
Cayden: "Leaves fall in autumn. Trees lose their leaves before winter but I don't think that this fox knows that. He thinks the tree is sick!"
Max: "Fix tree! Leaf on stick."
Cayden: "It is going to be hard to catch those leaves with all of that wind!"
Max: "Blow away!"
Max: "Squirrel!"
Cayden: "He is using the leaves to make a nest? I didn't know squirrels made nests!"
Cayden: "Look at all those blue birds!"
Max: "All gone!"
Cayden: "There are no more leaves until spring."
Cayden: "Look at the icicles though! You can feel them on the paper!"
Cayden: "This was a good story! I liked watching the fox try to save the leaves. I learned that other animals use the leaves from the trees. My favorite part was the icicle picture at the end of the book!"
Parent's comments:
"Fletcher and the Falling Leaves" by Julia Rawlinson is a very sweet story. Both of my boys thoroughly enjoyed the book from the first page to the last. The illustrations are wonderful, especially the depiction of the tree during the winter on the last page. This book is a great tool to teach children about what happens during the changing of the seasons!
A story about a young little fox who loved a tree.
Customer Rating: 
I thought this was a nice book to read. It had 17 scenes to it. Many were just 1-page long. The text was pretty good, and the illustrations were excellent if watercolor images are your cup of tea.
The story is set in the late fall to early winter and is about a little fox named Fletcher who cares very much for a large tree. Apparently Fletcher is less than a year old because he doesn't know that trees normally lose their leaves in the fall season. He seems to think that when the leaves fall off that the tree is not doing too well.
The book will probably be a great tool to help enlighten a young child about seasons and how trees grow leaves in the spring and lose their leaves in the fall. I'm not sure the text makes us develop any great feeling for Fletcher. Nor do the pictures really stand out. Thus, it probably is not a book that kids will want read to them time and time again.
I would have liked the book better if the illustrations had been great drawings rather than mediocre watercolors. And I also would have liked to see the life of a tree featured for an entire year rather than just September to December or whatever. 4 stars!
