The Old Man Who Lived In a Tree

By Matthew Gilbert

Timmy has a wild imagination. One boring Sunday he decides to have a look inside the strange forest on the other side of the road. He can see eyes blinking at him through the bushes. When he gets inside the forest his bravery suddenly disappears and he realises he has walked too far and is lost. Join Timmy on his adventure through the forest and find out exactly who the old man is...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781447891680

Matthew Gilbert

Matthew Gilbert was the managing executive editor of a publishing trade magazine for six years and has been a manager and consultant for many small companies. He has written extensively on business, psychology, and spirituality and is the author of Communication Miracles at Work and Take This Job and Love It. Gilbert is now the editor in chief at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and lives in California with his wife and their two cats.

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The Old Man Who Lived In a Tree

The Old Man Who Lived In A Tree

By Matthew Gilbert

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Once upon a boring Sunday little Timmy went for walk. He walked to the end of his garden and looked out of the garden gate at the forest on the other side of the street. The forest was dark and really quite creepy, or at least Timmy thought it was. He had often had dreams about what was in the forest, like big monsters, small monsters, fat monsters and thin monsters. In fact all the dreams he had about the forest involved monsters of some kind or other.

When he spoke to his mother about the forest on the other side of the street she would often say to him in a loud voice, ‘Don’t be