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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.

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“As long as people are caring and kind, there is always hope, even when things seem hopeless.” This is the moral conveyed in this stunning picture book about the life of a big tree called Adoette.

This is a great book for school or home by author-illustrator Lydia Monks (best known for her collaborations with Julia Donaldson). Adoette is a tree (French for ‘big tree’) that has presided over the street for 100 years, seeing times change, people change, priorities change. This community-themed book would be great to use across the curriculum and could be used across a whole school.

At its heart, this is a story about how nothing lasts forever, but how you can have a positive impact wherever you are and leave a legacy.

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