This is a beautiful story about giving living beings the time and the patience to grow and become their best. It will make a good conversation starter for kids. Highly recommended!

Rating: 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!!!!!!!!!
Book: The Good For Nothing Tree
Release Date: RELEASES on March 29, 2022
Author: Amy-Jill Levine; Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Genre: Children's Fiction | Religion & Spirituality

This book was so cute and teaches readers the lesson that patience is a virtue. Another lesson is good things comes to those who wait. While others wanted to give up on this fig tree that didn’t produce figs year after year, the children of the city wanted to wait and give it love and time. And after a long time passed, the fig tree was fruitful and the children enjoyed the figs. This book is appropriate for all ages up to 5th grade. Teachers can use this book to teach moral/lesson, problem/solution, character change, and author’s POV.

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Based on a parable from the Gospel of Luke, this story tells of a tree that won't grow figs quickly enough to please a gardener. The gardener wants to give up on the tree and pull it up, in order to plant a new one. The children beg and plead with the gardener to give the tree more time, saying that it just needs more love. The children care for the tree, giving it more time to grow and develop. Eventually, the tree yields figs, which the children enjoy. But along the way, they learned to enjoy the tree for just being a tree; for being their tree. I enjoyed this book and the message it teaches. Not all trees grow on our time, and not all children develop on the same timeline. We are each individual, and sometimes we just need more time and support. It's a great book with a great message!

A minute fig tree is causing concern because it isn't growing and producing fruit like expected. How long will it take everyone wonders?

The seasons come and go and still no fruit appears. Oh my! Is this little tree living up to the name it's been dubbed with... good for nothing? Are the humans going to give up on it and cast it aside? Nooooooo way!!!

The kids take it upon themselves to make it their special project of love. They till the soil underneath it, water it properly, and treat it with special TLC. Will the little tree shed its negative nickname and become an abundant fig producer after all? Somethings take more time to mature ( kids too ) and with adequate care, love and patience something beautiful can emerge that knocks expectations out of the park.

This book is inspired by a parable from the New Testament. The illustrations are colourful, detailed and kid-friendly. They enrich the text and invite young readers into the story. The authors have included the origin of the parable and a recipe to try at the back of the book. I highly recommend this book.

The Good for Nothing Tree is a very sweet story. It’s about a group of children who don’t want to give up on a special tree. Even when the Gardener feels like it’s taking too long to produce it’s fruit.

It’s nice for children to read about others who are being calm, patient, and helpful. The best way to teach is by example, and this story helps with that.

I also enjoy when children’s books have discussion topics and questions for parents and care givers to use. Not everybody can think of these things, and having this area in this book is wonderful.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #FlyawayBooks for the advanced copy. Thank you to #AmyJillLevine, #SandyEisenbergSasso, and #AnnieBowler for the beautiful storyand illustrations.

First of all, I love the illustrations and the presentation of the basic contents.

Well written with a helpful note from the author towards the end, well illustrated and quite informative for the target audience the book is a must have for schools I would say.

Psst: there's a recipe too!

Thank you, Flyaway Books and the author/artist, for the advance reading copy.

A book about not giving up, in this case, on a tree that doesn’t grow like all the other trees. The children choose to give it a lot of love to see if it can grow with care. An inspiring book about not giving up, and I loved it. I recommend if.

Hmmm... A gardener plants a fig tree, much to the joy of the local children, although they're the only ones left positive it will ever bear any fruit when it seems to have had a hard time growing. It's lucky we're told this is about children, and about how they work and learn at different paces, and that this is a biblical parable. The astute young reader of this will realise that by the time (spoiler, no spoiler) the tree does work out, all the kids so gleefully tending to it through the seasons would have been in their dotage.