Download or read book THE FRUITS OF THE OLLYKIN TREE written by Mat Gardener and published by Martin J. Hibbs. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this particular story, Olly goes to see a pantomime called “Jack and the Beanstalk;” this fired up his imagination about growing things. When Olly got back home after the pantomime, he went over to a fruit bowl. He found some nuts in the bottom of the bowl and he asked what they would grow into. As he lay in his bed that night, he had an amazing dream. In that dream, Olly dreamt about a special magic tree called the Ollykin tree. This led him to have a series of other exciting dreams too. In these later dreams, he became the something of a local hero. He became the owner of a large farm and he was able to feed the world. This story aims to show young readers how important it is to grow and to nurture living things. With so many young people now living and growing up in towns and cities few of them get to see how their food is produced. It is also a sad fact that few are aware of the environmental costs to the planet when food is grown a long way from those that need it. This book also makes readers aware of the importance of self-sufficiency in respect to preventing local food shortages. The story also points out that much agricultural land that is currently built on would be better used as agricultural land to produce food for local communities, ( a point which those on council planning committees and government ministers would be wise to take into account when making planning decisions concerning green-field sites). This book is also designed to make young people aware of the suffering of others in far away countries where climate change and seasonal abnormalities damage and destroy crop yields. It seeks to show how those reliant upon such crops can find themselves on the verge of starvation. The story also, highlights the importance of overseas assistance in some cases; not just on a short-term aid basis, but in helping those affected by climate based food shortages, to adjust and to produce hardier crops. .
Download or read book The Fruits of the Ollykin Tree written by Mat Gardener and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this particular story, Olly goes to see a pantomime called “Jack and the Beanstalk;” this fired up his imagination about growing things. As he lay in his bed that night, he had an amazing dream. In that dream, Olly dreamt about a special magic tree called the Ollykin tree. This led him to have a series of other exciting dreams too. In these later dreams, he became the something of a local hero. He became the owner of a large farm and he was able to feed the world.This story aims to show young readers how important it is to grow and to nurture living things. With so many young people now living and growing up in towns and cities few of them get to see how their food is produced. It is also a sad fact that few are aware of the environmental costs to the planet when food is grown a long way from those that need it. This book also makes readers aware of the importance of self-sufficiency in respect to preventing local food shortages.The story also points out the importance of protecting important agricultural land to produce food for local communities.This book is also designed to make young people aware of the suffering of others in far away countries where climate change and seasonal abnormalities damage and destroy crop yields. It seeks to show how those reliant upon such crops can find themselves on the verge of starvation. The story also, highlights the importance of overseas assistance in some cases; not just on a short-term aid basis, but in helping those affected by climate based food shortages, to adjust and to produce hardier crops.
Download or read book The Fruits of the Ollykin Tree written by Mat Gardener and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this particular story, Olly goes to see a pantomime called "Jack and the Beanstalk;" this fired up his imagination about growing things. As he lay in his bed that night, he had an amazing dream. In that dream, Olly dreamt about a special magic tree called the Ollykin tree. This led him to have a series of other exciting dreams too. In these later dreams, he became the something of a local hero. He became the owner of a large farm and he was able to feed the world.This story aims to show young readers how important it is to grow and to nurture living things. With so many young people now living and growing up in towns and cities few of them get to see how their food is produced. It is also a sad fact that few are aware of the environmental costs to the planet when food is grown a long way from those that need it. This book also makes readers aware of the importance of self-sufficiency in respect to preventing local food shortages. The story also points out the importance of protecting important agricultural land to produce food for local communities. This book is also designed to make young people aware of the suffering of others in far away countries where climate change and seasonal abnormalities damage and destroy crop yields. It seeks to show how those reliant upon such crops can find themselves on the verge of starvation. The story also, highlights the importance of overseas assistance in some cases; not just on a short-term aid basis, but in helping those affected by climate based food shortages, to adjust and to produce hardier crops.
Download or read book Villains and Heroes written by Mat Gardener and published by Martin J. Hibbs. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a group of errant wasps, VILLAINS AND HEROES is the second in a series of CREATURES OF THE WILDERNESS books which also feature BERNIE BEETLE. This particular book has been written in the wake of recent violent incidents involving young people and using the group of wasps as an example, it aims to educate young people in respect to the repercussions of violence, in that it follows the lives of the perpetrators of violence. It also shows how hard their lives become after they have carried out violent acts. It also aims to teach young people to be respectful towards those around them. As well as stressing the importance of having self-respect; this particular book also gives guidance as to how to attain this most valuable of commodities, in the hope that the young people who encounter this particular book will learn valuable lessons from it, will grow up well adjusted, and be respectful to others, so that they will have no need to use violence, or be disrespectful towards others. The first few chapters focus on the horrors of violence. In subsequent chapters the focus then moves on to justice this section has been written and designed for interactive discussion between the reader and those in their company whereby suitable punishment can be discussed. The back half of this book concentrates upon the villains trying to rehabilitate themselves back into society with great difficulty, having been excluded for good reason, with few being willing to trust them. There are some very difficult moments where the villains become ill and compassion is brought into focus as an issue, as is forgiveness and atonement, when the villains seek to apologise for what they have done and to show their genuine remorse through doing good deeds.
