"Award-winning Lydia Monks’s inspiring story captures the importance of trees and how much they should be loved by the people who live near them"
September 2022 Book of the Month
Adoette is a huge tree that was planted when a new street was being built over 100 years ago. When the first families moved into the street Adoette was just a small tree and the young children played all around her. There were no cars and no electricity and everyone in the road knew everyone else.
Over the years things changed. Adoette was there when good things happened and when bad things happened. She was there as everywhere got busier with more cars and more people rushing about. And all the time Adeotte was growing…Now she was no longer small. Instead, she was a huge tree, towering over the road and taking space from the pavement. Some people began to hate her as much as others loved her. They insisted that the tree should go!
Once the splendid tree had been cut down the street looked very bare and felt very sad. Adoette had been a living centre piece for a community. How could she be replaced?
Lydia Monks’s beautiful illustrations celebrate the importance of caring for nature and for each other by making time to look out for one another. A powerful message inspired by Lydia Monks own experience.
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Adoette lived to be 100 years old. Just imagine all the things she saw! She lived on the same street all her life, but one day, people decided it would be best if she would go... Award-winning and best-selling author-illustrator Lydia Monks, illustrator of franchise What the Ladybird Heard, beautifully tells the tale of the life of one tree, from a young sapling to a mighty oak, becoming the beating heart of the community she lived in, right up until the day they cut her down. But there's hope, when one little girl takes one of her acorns to plant in the community garden.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Adoette and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
Adoette features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Ecological and Environmental Interest - Fiction, Stories about Family and Friends, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 5+ readers, Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month, Featured Books for 3+ readers
Adoette is available in Paperback, Hardback
Adoette was written by Lydia Monks and published by Andersen Press an imprint of Andersen Press Ltd
Adoette has 32 pages
£7.19
