🕊️ MY OLIVE TREE - Read Aloud with the Author | Brightly Storytime
🕊️ MY OLIVE TREE - Read Aloud with the Author | Brightly Storytime with tags read, aloud, reading, kids, books, readalong, hazar elbayya, palestine books for children, middle east books for children, read aloud books for kindergarten, read along books, read aloud stories for kids, picture books read aloud, preschool books for kids, books for 4 year olds, books for 5 year olds
In this simple, touching picture book about the healing power of a loving community, a girl's grandpa and her neighbors help her grow an olive tree in a war-torn land. Thanks to author Hazar Elbayya for stopping by!
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About MY OLIVE TREE
Salam’s grandpa says that olive trees are strong and that their roots run deep in their Palestinian land. They connect everyone–from the farmer who presses the olives into oil to the baker who uses the oil in his taboon.
Salam plants her own seed and is eager to see it grow. She waits… she waters… she asks the seed to hurry… until finally…a sprout! But one day soldiers come and destroy everything in their path…including Salam’s new olive tree. Salam is crushed–though she doesn’t have to worry. Her grandpa gathers their neighbors and, together, they plant olive trees as far as the eye can see.
With spare, sensitive prose and gentle illustrations, debut author-illustrator Hazar Elbayya delivers a powerful story about the beauty of the olive tree and the importance of community in the face of hardship.
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Music used with permission from DeWolfe Music Library.
