The Faraway Tree Stories
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Fantastic condition!  The stories are as amazing as I remember them.  Can't wait to read it to my children.
954377
All of the novellas in this collection are wonderful. There wasn't a weak one in the bunch which is pretty unusual. The authors are: Carla Olson Gade, Darlene Franklin, Erica Vetsch, Pam Hillman, Mary Connealy, Ruth Logan Herne, Kathleen Y'Barbo, DiAnn Mills, and Becca Witham.

Here's an example of one of the novellas:
Carla Olson Gade, wrote "Proving Up", set in Swedeburg, Nebraska in 1885. Nils Svensson has worked hard for years to establish hardy trees. He's waited for his wife to return to Nebraska after she returned to a less-demanding life back home with her parents. Enter widowed Elsa Lindstrom, Swedish like Nils, and she has somehow procured land he'd expected to purchase. Instead, Elsa and her two younger brothers now occupy what he'd hoped to expand his orchards to. Elsa, too, plans to develop a tree nursery. Can these two like-minded Swedes work together? Lovely story and characterization and some sigh-worthy love scenes.  HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!
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I think that the stories in Flying Leap are very interesting.  Some may think they are a bit twisted but I think being a teenager I can relate to some of the stories.  Budnitz is a very good writer and I think her stories  definitly have deeper meaning than what is written, I think of it as poetry  rather than a book. I look forward to the next one!
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I found this book to be very philosophical in nature. This is an autobiography wrote by a Bristlecone Pine Tree. The 4,700 year old tree has a lot of thoughts to share. Included in the thoughts to ponder is the short lifespan of man compared to the longevity of a tree and how just when man starts to figure things out he dies while a tree sees much but can't go anywhere or talk. The tree transfers its thoughts to a young boy. As they grow together the boy becomes a genius as he is endowed with the tree's knowledge and the tree relishes having a body. Complications arise when the tree does not want to return to its place as a tree and the boy wants to move on with his life. This is an unusual story with many things to think on. It would be best to read this in a quiet spot as it has deep thinking involved. I like that it gives some different and unusual perspectives to think on.
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This book contains three stories: In Olly the Owl, a smart owl lives above Olivers treehouse where he sleeps mostly during the day and comes out at night. Being known as wise all the forest animals visit him for advice. Though many sought Ollys advice Oliver was doing just fine until something mysterious happened and he just needed some great advice.  To solve the mystery, Oliver follows Ollys advice and discovers what happened!  This story is full of mystery and intrigue with colorful illustrations for kids to follow along. Its a lovely mystery to try to figure out with a happy ending and a fun and entertaining book to read.

In Desert Travel, Oliver receives a letter from his sister asking him to visit her. In order to do so Oliver must cross the desert. Oliver takes his readers on his journey across the desert for an informative learning experience about all that happens when crossing a desert. Will he ever get across the desert?  Youll find out when you read this suspenseful story.

In Ghosts at Halloween, Oliver visits a local castle, where he loves it as its quiet with no one around, especially at night. Well, that is, until he bumps into something spooky, a real ghost. Oliver befriends the ghost and his friends and invites him to go trick-or-treating on Halloween night.  Find out what happens if you dare to read this story.  Its delightfully spooky.
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Really enjoyed the imagery in Peter Michael Rosenberg's short story, "The Fig Tree - a Fable."  What a wonderful short story.
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the book was very good. i loved it. i wish there was more of the first story though. great stories. i loved them all.
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"Have you ever wanted to help someone with something that you are really good at but they don't acknowledge your gifts? Have you watched them flounder and just wished that they would accept your help? This is how the trees feel. They just sit by and watch us struggle when they are so willing to help us. They have so much wisdom to share." The Wisdom of the Trees by Jen Ward
This is just one of the many exceprts that I read today that I loved from the new book. My daughters and I are loving reading stories outside with our tree friends! This morning one of my daughters found the book not where we left it! It was under one of our tree friends! I could have sworn we brought it in. I think the trees and all the nature spirits and faeries are enjoying reading the book as well. :) So many delighteful tree communications stories that kids would love to be read to about. They instanty know about these things, better than adults. It's been magic. <3
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I would recommend this book to all Nora Robert's fans (J.D. Robb) as all the stories were excellent and each had some storyline that appeared to represent the fairy tales we grew up with.  I liked that theme to these four stories. I kept wanting more stories.
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Wonderful story of how 3 trees are used in very special ways for the Christmas season.  Best Christmas Story I think I have found so far!!!
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This book contains tree great passionate stories by tree great writers. I personally loved Jane Porter's story a lot. It's also to be found under the name" In Dantes Debt" by Jane Porter.
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Jeff, again thank you for your great story!  I really enjoy reading your stories and marvel at your wonderful imaginative stories. I look forward to reading another one of your stories in the near future. I highly recommend reading this story in three books to everyone interested in reading a great story.
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I remember reading these stories to my daughter, now aged 32.  She just had a child and I bought this for my grandson. I can't wait until I can read them to him.
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"Don't tell your Mothet" is a delight. Every chapter is a different adventure that young Billy and his cousins get themselves into as boys. Each story was a gentle reminder of my own family or my husbands . He read it after I did and found that the stories in this book are so close.to his background in the small town of Monck's Corner, SC.
  I loved Bills story in the Apple Orchard and could relate to his feelings towards The Wizard of OZ. I would highly recommend Mr. Lightles book , it's a bit of our generations history.
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The stories are fun to read and short.  My faves from this book are The Karelian Bear Dog, The Dark Secret of Mount Olympus, Come and Get Me and The Thing in the Trees.  These are the scariest in this book but all of the stories are fun to read.  I have all of Rusty's books except for the ones which are combinations of earlier books.  My favorite Rusty Wilson's books are Bigfoot Campfire Stories, More Bigfoot Campfire Stories and Alaskan Bigfoot Campfire Stories.
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Excellent group of stories. It provides a good introduction to the character of Peter and Dill as well as the town of Duskerville. I highly recommend the purchase.
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Based on interviews with real Jewish refugees in wartime Sweden, A Faraway Island offers a new angle on Holocaust stories.  Apparently there was a Swedish version of the Kindertransport.  500 Jewish children were sent to safety in Sweden in 1939 and had varying types of experiences living with Swedish families.  In this novel, Stephie Steiner (age 12) and her sister Nellie (age 8) leave their parents in Vienna for an island off the coast of Sweden.  Placed in two different homes, with two related families, they are safe but encouraged to accept Jesus and eventually baptized, with no understanding or regard for their Jewish heritage. Stephie is bullied and teased while Nellie manages to fit in, even as she risks losing her Jewishness.  As the war comes closer, to Denmark and Norway, and the chances of reuniting with their parents diminishes, details of the sisters' mostly secular former life in Vienna are gradually recalled and revealed:  Nazis humiliating a shopkeeper and his wife, isolation of the Jewish students in separate schools, their father's experience in a labor camp, fancy shops, the loss of their luxuries, the burning of their synagogue.  The author, described as having been "born and raised in a Jewish family in Goteborg, Sweden," has written four novels about Stephie and Nellie.  In this one, the girls do not protest the loss of their religion; perhaps this occurs later in the series.  In an author's note, Thor explains that she wrote the book in the present tense to contribute to "a better understanding of the vulnerable situation in which refugee children continue to live." - SUSAN BERSON - DENVER, CO