I don't see the problem. It's A tree. It's not THE tree.
And has this guy never seen a chorse before?
(Okay, I got nothing after that one. Based on my limited knowledge of French, this is appears to be a terrible translation issue- tree = arbre, horse = cheval, house = maison.)
There are a lot more. Those are English to Portuguese translations and there are more. I'd risk the original language of the book is heavily Latin based.
Ok, so assume it's French. The words now make sense. But, look at the pictures.
Does that look anything like a helicopter / hélicoptère? What does that pink round thing have to do with snow / neige? Why does the image for a tail / queue look like a radish? And what's with the letter for Y? Common Y words in french for kids are things like "yak", "yaourt" (yogurt), "yeux" (eyes), "yeti", "yacht", "yoga", "yo-yo". They seem to have chosen "yole", which in english is "yawl", defined as "a two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailboat with the mizzenmast stepped far aft so that the mizzen boom overhangs the stern." And yet, although the image appears to be a sailboat (voilier), it's a one-masted sailboat.