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Our Tree Named Steve Paperback – Picture Book, February 15, 2007
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After the family spares him from the builders, Steve the tree quickly works his way into their lives. He holds their underwear when the dryer breaks down, hes there when Adam and Lindsay get their first crushes, and hes the centerpiece at their outdoor family parties. With a surprising lack of anthropomorphizing, this is a uniquely poignant celebration of fatherhood, families, love, and change.
- Print length32 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Lexile measureAD890L
- Dimensions0.14 x 9 x 9.5 inches
- PublisherPuffin Books
- Publication dateFebruary 15, 2007
- ISBN-100142407437
- ISBN-13978-0142407431
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- Publisher : Puffin Books; Illustrated edition (February 15, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 32 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0142407437
- ISBN-13 : 978-0142407431
- Reading age : 3 - 8 years, from customers
- Lexile measure : AD890L
- Item Weight : 4.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 0.14 x 9 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #143,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #547 in Children's New Experiences Books
- #929 in Children's Nature Books (Books)
- #2,924 in Children's Friendship Books
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About the author

Alan Zweibel is an American television writer, author, playwright, and screenwriter whom The New York Times says has “earned a place in the pantheon of American pop culture."
An original "Saturday Night Live" writer, Zweibel has won five Emmy Awards for his work in television, which also includes "It's Garry Shandling's Show" (co-creator and producer) and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (consulting producer).
Zweibel's theatrical contributions include his collaboration with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award-winning play "700 Sundays", Martin Short's Broadway hit "Fame Becomes Me", and six off-Broadway plays including "Bunny Bunny – Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy" which he adapted from his best-selling book. He is currently preparing "Bunny Bunny" for a return to the New York stage. Taking to the stage himself, Zweibel is an ensemble performer in "Celebrity Autobiography" at New York's Triad Theater— and is a sought after keynote speaker.
A frequent guest on late night talk shows, Zweibel appeared in episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Law & Order", and can be seen in the documentary "The Last Laugh" about humor and the Holocaust; Judd Apatow's "The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling" (HBO); "Gilbert", a documentary about the life of Gilbert Gottfried; and "Love, Gilda", the Emmy-nominated CNN documentary for which he also served as executive producer.
All told, Zweibel has written eleven books including his cultural memoir "Laugh Lines – My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier", the 2006 Thurber Prize winning novel "The Other Shulman", the popular children's book "Our Tree Named Steve", and a parody of the Haggadah titled "For This We Left Egypt?" which he wrote with Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach.
Zweibel's humor has appeared in such diverse publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Op-Ed page, Huffington Post and MAD Magazine. He also penned a best-selling e-book titled From My Bottom Drawer.
Zweibel produced and co-wrote the feature film "Here Today" (2021) with Billy Crystal who also directs and stars alongside Tiffany Haddish. Other feature film co-writing credits include: "Dragnet", "North" and "The Story of Us".
He has been honored with awards from the Writers Guild of America and the Television Critics Association, and in 2010 the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) presented him with the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing which is given “in honor of a lifetime body of work as a writer in motion pictures or television.” In 2009, Zweibel received an honorary PhD. from the State University of New York.
In his own words, the production he is most proud of is the one he co-created with his wife Robin, their three children and five grandchildren.
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I chose this book because my son had purchased other books at the school book fair that had the same artwork and my son really loved the stories as well as the colorful and unique art. It has become a classic for my family. The story is simple but relatable and I think I love the story as much as he did back then. The narrator is a man, so I would read this story with a Carolina accent in a slow, deeper mans voice (sounding much like the guy (unnamed) from the Motel 6 commercials) I recommend this for any collection of books for those who keep books to pass on to other generations.
While it is not the classic that Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree is, I would liken it to that book in that emotion and a powerful message can co-exist simultaneously. We must appreciate what nature has given to us, and enjoy these gifts while we can. This lesson applies not only to the tree itself, but to family.
An old tree of obvious character was discovered on the site where a family's new house was to be built.The youngest child could not say "tree"; it came out "Steve", and after enough begging by the children,the father told the builder to spare it. The story of Steve is a letter written by the father to the children who are visiting their grandmother.It recaps how Steve, without speaking, seeming to think or in any way behaving other than a tree should, was so much a part of their family, and how he will continue to do so.
This is a touching story, but the only 'sap' here is in old Steve.The quirky illustrations enhance the modernity of the story, but I believe that the book is timeless.
I love this book.
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This is one you read to a child first and then talk about it.


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