The Unemployed Tree

Is there life beyond the park gates? Can a tree get stuck in an elevator? What records do the White Birch and the White Bear like to listen to in the evenings? Can a tram swim, and can an apple tree turn into a ghost? All this is yet to be discovered by the Tree, which one day had to leave its native park. And believe me, this is not easy - to be without a home, without a job, without friends - well-behaved trees. Especially if you are a Tree that is afraid of the dark and cannot fall asleep without the brightly burning park lights.

Perhaps the Tree will be saved by its favorite raspberry cap with a pom-pom? Or a wonderful full moon? Or an angry square boy? Or a bird that unexpectedly trembled in its branches on the darkest night...

The book about the Tree that decided to quit its job was written by Sveta Ben' - a singer, actress, theater director, and poet from Belarus. The pictures were drawn by the Berlin artist Lina Hesse.