Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window

Jeff Gottesfeld

4.27/5 (781 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank's window—this book introduces her story to a young audience.

The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots and reached skyward in peace.

The tree watched a little girl, who played and laughed and wrote in a diary. When strangers invaded the city and warplanes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl peek out of the curtained window of the annex. It watched as she and her family were taken away—and when her father returned after the war, alone.

The tree died the summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, but its seeds and saplings have been planted around the world as a symbol of peace.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 1st Edition, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0385753977

ISBN13:: 9780385753975

kindle Asin:: B0104ELSWU

The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window

Jeff Gottesfeld

4.27/5 (781 ratings)

Read Download

Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank's window—this book introduces her story to a young audience.

The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots and reached skyward in peace.

The tree watched a little girl, who played and laughed and wrote in a diary. When strangers invaded the city and warplanes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl peek out of the curtained window of the annex. It watched as she and her family were taken away—and when her father returned after the war, alone.

The tree died the summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, but its seeds and saplings have been planted around the world as a symbol of peace.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 1st Edition, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0385753977

ISBN13:: 9780385753975

kindle Asin:: B0104ELSWU

More Books

The Cats In Krasinski Square

Karen Hesse

The Bracelet

Yoshiko Uchida

Woke Baby

Mahogany L. Browne

The Yellow Bus

Loren Long

The Rock in My Throat

Kao Kalia Yang

Mabel Wants a Friend

Ariel Bernstein

Knock Knock: Who's There? (A Googly-Eyed Joke Book)

Rob Hodgson

Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better

Glenda Armand

Nobody Hugs a Cactus

Carter Goodrich

Room On Our Rock

Kate Temple

Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude for Neurodiversity

Samara Cole Doyon

The Three Pigs

David Wiesner