The Dreaming Tree - Softcover

Brown, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000664676X ISBN 13: 9780006646761

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2001

Synopsis

Erica loves to dream beneath her Dreaming Tree, a cherry tree at the end of the road where she lives. But one day in spring when her tree is in its full glory, she discovers that it has to be chopped down so that the road can be widened.

Erica leaps into action, persuading her family and friends to get together a petition during the summer holidays to save the tree. But summer turns into autumn, and there is no response to the petition.

Then one cold winter morning, the workmen turn up to chop down the tree. But Erica’s efforts have not been in vain – her Dreaming Tree is transported to her very own front garden.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Brown was born in London, but has spent most of his life in the wild countryside of the North of England. He started writing only when his two children had grown up. His books, he says, are "a way of keeping their childhood and mine alive in my mind.”

From the Back Cover

'My friends tease me for being a dreamer, because I am always thinking about wild places far away. But I know that dreams sometimes do come true.'

Erica's favourite place for dreaming is beneath the cherry tree at the end of her street. When she learns it is going to be chopped down, Erica determines to save the tree… and her dreams.

An imaginative girl triumphs over the realities of urban life in this uplifting story.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 000664676X
• ISBN 13: 9780006646761
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Fletcher Claire