The Worry Tree

Front Cover
Macmillan, Sep 16, 2008 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 144 pages

Juliet's a worrywart, and no wonder! Her little sister, Oaf, follows her around taking notes and singing "The Irritating Song" all day long. Her parents are always arguing about Dad's clutter. Nana's so tired of craft lessons that she starts barbecuing things in the middle of the night. And Juliet's friends Lindsay and Gemma are competing to see which of them is her best friend. Juliet can't fit in any more worries!

But then she makes a remarkable discovery. Behind the wallpaper in her new bedroom, Juliet uncovers an old painting of a very special tree. Nana remembers it well: it's the Worry Tree, and with the help of the Worry Tree animals, Juliet just might be able to solve some of life's big problems.

The Worry Tree is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Let the Worry Tree animals help you with your worries too
127
Wolfgang the Wombat
130
Petronella the Pig
131
Gwyneth the Goat
132
Dimitri the Dog
133
Piers the Peacock
134
Delia the Duck
135
The Hole in the Trunk
136
Acknowledgments
138
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Marianne Musgrove is a South Australian children's author and worry workshop presenter. Some of her books include Forget-me-not Fairies, The Beginner's Guide to Revenge, and Lucy the Good. She won the 2008 Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature for The Worry Tree, the 2011 Swiss Prix Chronos for Don't Breathe a Word (German edition). In 2016, she will be a May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust fellow. She was also the winner of the Max Fatchen Fellowship from the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Worry Tree
AuthorMarianne Musgrove
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherMacmillan, 2008
ISBN0805087915, 9780805087918
Length144 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Fiction / Family / General
Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational
Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings
Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Australia & Oceania
Juvenile Fiction / School & Education
Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings
Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
  
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