While I certainly do much enjoy the bright and expressive collage like illustrations of Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf (and especially of the woodpeckers which just happen to also be amongst my favourite bird species), I personally think that it would have been better and more successful for author and illustrator Lois Ehlert to have either penned a non-fiction book about sugar maples (and woodpeckers) or recounted a fictional tree-based narrative, as the combination of fiction/non-fiction in Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf is in my opinion not executed all that well, has not been rendered all that successfully (and actually even tends to feel rather disjointed and uneven, with the fiction part of Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf more suitable for younger children and the non fiction part definitely more suitable for older children, and perhaps even younger teenagers).
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