' A book that parents and grandparents can enjoy reading to younger children and older children can read for themselves. Miranda and Richard are available to deliver workshops on the creative process behind the making of the book. * A limited edition of only 100 copies have been printed and are available at £7.00 on a first come first served basis. ‘It never grows any fruit, and I doubt if it ever will, it’s pretty useless’ she said dismissively. The next door neighbour Florrie popped her head above the garden wall, and told them all about the village and the problem with the old apple tree. Anna sets out on a quest to prove to everyone that the tree is worth saving. Colourful illustrations follow each season as an apple tree grows leaves, fragrant blossoms and tiny green apples. She picks plenty of sweet, crunchy apples and makes applesauce, apple cider and baked apple treats. The tree has to produce at least one fruit to prevent it being felled by the local authority. Annie the Apple Farmer saves her most beautiful apples to sell fresh at the farmers ’ market. * As we were starting to get to the end of the book and the rescued apple tree’s second season it produced over twenty delicious apples!Īnna and the Apple Tree is a timeless yet contemporary story about a girl who strikes up a friendship with an old apple tree. Then Miranda and I doing a final joint feedback session before we went to print.Īs someone who is a keen planter of all kinds of trees, an advocate of outdoor learning and a Grandad I am so pleased that we have a book which promotes and reflects the importance of trees and benefits of younger and older people working together. Once the story was in first draft I had great fun taking it around schools and getting children’s and teachers feedback. As I travelled around the country and told the story of the rescued tree, the character of Anna and her story quickly developed. The tree responded incredibly well and produced one delicious apple in it’s first season. In an age where modern life can be very stressful, for all ages, this story of hope, is more important than ever.Īfter the event in Evesham, Miranda sent me sketch of the performance, and I was so impressed that I really wanted to work with her on a story that had arisen from a barely alive apple tree I’d recently rescued at a well known dumping ground for garden waste. Being in nature can trigger imagination and creativity, inspire wonder but also just let kids slow down and think. Richard’s story really struck a chord with me because I believe trees are a vital part of childhood (they were for me). I saw Richard at an event at The Evesham Festival of Words, where my children, even my sceptical teenage son, sat completely enthralled for an hour (without fortnite!) So, I jumped at the chance of working with him. The story behind the story of Anna and the Apple Tree His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.After a fabulous year and a half of working on our apple story project the book is finally here! The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. occasion’d by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood.” According to Stukeley, “After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees… he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind…. In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, “Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life,” published in 1752. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the “Principia,” which also features his three laws of motion. There’s no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton’s observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. In this light-hearted story, twins Flor and Roberto scamper through their. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Offsite: Books on the Garden with Stephanie Wildman & Cecilia Populus-Eudave. In reality, things didn’t go down quite like that. Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century “aha moment” that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity.
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