Kid's Book Club - April

This month sees the beginning of our much heralded and long requested Kid’s Book Club; aimed at independent readers aged 8 – 12 years old.

We start the series with Wishtree by Katherine Applegate; The New York Times-bestselling story of kindness, friendship, and hope.

Trees can’t tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red, a 216-year-old oak tree, is the neighborhood “wishtree”. People write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red’s branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red’s hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood.

You might say Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red’s experience as a wishtree is more important than ever.

Red, chronicles the lives who depend on him, including Samar, a lonely Muslim refugee boy, tapping themes of religious bigotry and environmental protection.

About the author

Katherine Alice Applegate born October 9, 1956, is an American young adult and children’s fiction writer. Best known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, and Everworld book series, she won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her 2012 children’s novel The One and Only Ivan. Applegate’s most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Children’s Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Her book Home of the Brave has won several awards. She also wrote a chapter book series in 2008–09 called Roscoe Riley Rules.