The Dreaming Tree (Bridges)

Product Description
Bridges: Multi-cultural books for a diverse world
Bridges is a new series of books for children celebrating Ireland’s ethnic and cultural diversity. Beautiful full-colour hardback books with high quality stories and engaging illustrations, Bridges can help children with their understanding of different cultures and of the many different experiences of living in Ireland today. With story levels that are accessible to a wide age range, Bridges can be enjoyed by children with a wide range of language proficiency and differing reading abilities.

Bridging sameness and difference
Bridging cultures
Building reading success

Reviews
‘a charming tale of a stranger learning to fit in’ — Books Ireland

‘well-written, entertaining and enlightening stories for children’ — Books Ireland

‘distinctively illustrated by artists from the Cartoon Saloon’ — Books Ireland

‘a handsome collection of full-colour picture books’ — Books Ireland

‘particularly attractive ! For reading aloud in class’ — Inis Magazine

‘highly recommended’ — Inis Magazine

‘a timely series that will be invaluable both in the school and home environment ! These thought-provoking books will be of immense value to teachers, parents and of course children’

‘particularly attractive ! For reading aloud in class’ — Inis Magazine

‘stunning’ — Inis Magazine

‘Editor’s Choice’

‘attractive and important’ — Inis Magazine Winter 2009

‘innovative and exciting’ — RTE Guide

‘appropriate and timely’ — Irish Examiner

‘aimed at age six and upwards, this excellent and enjoyable non-preachy series ! Should be in every school’ — Irish Examiner

‘[Bridges] introduce us to some of the newer cultures in our island in warm and sympathetic fashion’ — Sunday Independent

‘an excellent and thought-provoking new series of multicultural books from O’Brien’ — Sunday Independent

‘captivating as well as educational’ — Woman’s Way Product Description

Back home in Brazil, Roberto loved playing football. Now he lives in Ireland, and he’d really like to have a game with the boys in the park, but he’s too shy. When his granny reminds him of the Brazilian story of the dreaming tree, he doesn’t see how a story can help him! But maybe it can! This is a new series of books for modern, multi-cultural Ireland for children aged 6-8.