The Goodbye Tree
Age 5+
General Fiction
A moving and insightful story of creating a memorial for a loved one, from award-winning author Pip Harry
One summer morning, Nick and his family wake up early, and gather precious things to take with them. Today, they will plant a tree - a tree that will reach towards the sun and bring shade to those who rest beneath it. Together they will sow the seeds of a living memorial to someone who has gone before them, but will never be forgotten.
The Goodbye Tree is a poetic and insightful story of a family coming together in grief, and shows how loss can be the source of unexpected gifts.
Creators
Pip Harry is an Australian author and journalist who lives on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Her acclaimed young adult, middle grade and picture books have won the CBCA Book of the Year and been shortlisted for the NSW and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, ABIAs and Indie Book Awards. Pip works as a content producer for a youth homelessness organisation and loves to swim, eat gelato and travel. She is passionate about children's literacy and the life changing power of reading and stories.
Author and illustrator Christina Booth works from her bush studio in Tasmania, Australia. Trained as a teacher and painter, she loves that she makes up stories and colours for a living. Christina started her literary career illustrating for great Australian authors such as Max Fatchen, Colin Thiele, Christobel Mattingley and Jackie French. Many of Christina’s books have been CBCA Notables and her 2009 picture book Kip was a CBCA Honour Book. She won the 2014 Environment Award for Children’s Literature for Welcome Home, and her 2019 title One Careless Night was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, and won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Whitley Book Award.
