The Listening Tree: Befriending Nature

By Martha Begley Schade

Why Buy This Book?

This charming & beautifully illustrated book is a useful reader for preteen social science discussions, where the key focus points in this book are friendship, family, stress, and modern-day stressors for children.

 

The Main Story

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Martha Begley Schade
• Release date: Apr 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781838014834

Martha Begley Schade

Martha Begley Schade is a writer and author of the highly acclaimed Galway Fairytales series. After years of working in business management, during which she had also written several books relative to her work, she has now put pen to paper to realize a lifelong dream of story-telling, a talent that was handed down through generations in her family. With a B.Sc. in physics & maths, and an MBA, her new venture into children's storytelling comes from a lifelong passion of entertaining and educating children. After 22 great years of living and working in Germany, she returned to Galway in 2008 with her two sons. The only place she ever wanted to live, she finds the Tribes people are the kindest and most caring she has ever met. Together with the sea air, the seagulls flying overhead, the buzz of the city, the glistening beaches and beautiful hills of Connemara, all combine to only cement her love for her adopted home.

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Martha Begley Schade, Galway, Ireland

Illustrated edition published in Ireland in 2020

Title: Galway Fairytales Merlin Woods Series

This book is a work of fiction and tells the story of a young girl growing up who find companionship, solace and friendship with a tree in the woods.

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Copyright © 2020. Martha Begley Schade

All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Illustration work & Cover Design done by Nicolae I. Nistor

First Edition.

ISBN 978-1-8380148-3-4

Table of Contents

Introduction

Way Back Then

Family

Learning from Nature

Compassion

Saying Sorry

Exam Stress

Steps in life

Finally

How Trees Are Our Friends

Old Irish Sayings

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Introduction

Super elegant and naturally graceful, she emerged from the car. Her slim leg appeared first and then she stepped out fully. Magnificently dressed, the crowd cheered and roared in delight. The band started to play, loud, happy music. Cameras clicked all over the place, television camera crews battled to get the best view of her.

She was finally back in Galway!

Eyre Square was dazzling in the sunshine. Flags were waving everywhere and anyone who didn't have a flag waved their arms around