Monday, May 18, 2020

The Birthday Tree

We've got another birthday in our house this month.  I pulled out this one for some afternoon reading...

Paul Fleischmann
pictures by Marcia Sewall 1979

Here's a simple story with a hint of folk magic about a sailor who leaves the sea behind.  He settles inland and plants an apple tree when his son his born.  Somehow that tree is tied to their son and even when he goes off to sea on his own, the apple tree has a way of letting them know how he is doing.  




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