“It’s a sunny autumn day and the world is full of rustling sounds as the leaves fall. The animal friends join Grandpa in raking the leaves, building up a pile of leaves. After a day of fun, Grandpa and his animal friends return home with smiles on their faces. This picture book uses falling leaves on an autumn day to depict a happy scene of people and animals living together in nature in bright yellow light. But there’s a twist. The final scene, which looks down from above on the forest where the characters have been playing all day, makes us think about how much of nature has shrunk due to human development.
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