The Tree that Decided to Walk E-Book

Thomas Booth Waddicor

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 22

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Better half a century late than never. The children's book my Grandpa wrote in the early 1970s and firmly intended to publish, but for various reasons never did. Having brought out my own first book this year (which is of course far simpler and easier than it would have been back then), it seemed fitting to bring his work to completion. With the help of a hand-typed anotated final draft, and two specially comissioned illustrations, the story needed very little extra work. It's all about a tree that decided to walk and the adventures it had. I guess it was intended to be read aloud to kids aged maybe four to five, which is just what I did with it for my own kids some years ago.

Leseprobe

The Tree that Decided to Walk

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THE TREE THAT DECIDED TO WALK

Chapter 1. Bushy Red Tail plants a tree

Once upon a time there was a little red squirrel who lived in the trees at the edge of a wood. He loved to scramble up the trees at top speed and then to leap from one tree to another, pretending to be a flying squirrel, which of course he was not. Of all the trees in the wood his favourite was a large beech tree. Every Autumn, when the flowers of the beech tree had turned into beech nuts, he feasted on the nuts until his tummy was full to bursting. After he had had a good feed, the squirrel, whose name was Bushy Red Tail, began to think about the winter that was coming and the snow, frost and ice that would cover the ground. He knew that there would be times when there would be very little food. He knew, too, that the only way of making sure of having enough to eat would be to collect as many of the beech nuts as he could carry and hide them here and there, and hither and thither, by scooping little holes in the ground and burying the nuts under the soil. Then, when it was cold and frosty he would only have to find where he had buried the beech nuts to be sure of having a good meal.