grow, do photosynthesis, and eventually fall, but he's afraid of falling. It will take a lot of heart and a lot of guts to make the leaf remember that just because you fall doesn't mean you can't get back up again. The other part of me sees this and thinks kids may get the wrong message. When leaves fall off a tree they die. So in a way the message is commit suicide if all your friends are doing it. And that's not a lesson we want to teach children. Now that is probably just my adult brain but some children do suffer severe depression and this could be the wrong message. I love the message of pick yourself back up, don't be afraid to fail, try try try again. However while I love these illustrations I think the delivery concept is a little flawed. So I love this book but I can't give it a high score and I can't buy it for my library. But to the illustrator, beautiful, beautiful job.