Book details

  • Genre:children's fiction
  • Sub-genre:Social Themes / Values & Virtues
  • Age Range (years):4 - 6
  • Language:English
  • Pages:40
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798317842475

Under the Buttonwood Tree

By Richard K. Pettibone

Overview

What if one simple story could help a child learn kindness, saving, and patience? Under the Buttonwood Tree is a warm, beautifully illustrated story for young children about making thoughtful choices, helping others, saving with care, and understanding that good things take time. Created especially for ages 4–6, the story follows Leo and Emma as they discover important life lessons beneath a wise old Buttonwood Tree. It gives parents, grandparents, and teachers an easy, engaging way to begin meaningful conversations about money, generosity, responsibility, and patience. More than a children's book, Under the Buttonwood Tree was created with a larger mission: to help bring these lessons to young children and classrooms, including Title I elementary schools. A simple story. Important lessons. A message children can carry with them as they grow.
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Description

Under the Buttonwood Tree is a warm, beautifully illustrated children's story designed to help young children begin learning some of life's most important lessons: kindness, saving, helping others, making thoughtful choices, and understanding that good things often take patience. Created especially for children ages 4–6, the story follows two curious friends, Leo and Emma, as they spend time beneath a wise old Buttonwood Tree. Through simple conversations and memorable moments, they begin to discover that some of life's greatest treasures are not things we find, but values we learn and practice every day. The story introduces early financial concepts in a way young children can understand, including saving with care, thinking before spending, and recognizing the value of helping others. Just as importantly, it gives parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers an easy way to begin meaningful conversations about generosity, responsibility, patience, and making good choices. Under the Buttonwood Tree was created with a larger mission in mind. A major goal of the project is to place books directly into the hands of teachers and children, including classrooms in Title I elementary schools, where these early lessons can reach even more young readers. Families and educators can also visit UnderTheButtonwoodTree.com for free resources and activities designed to extend the lessons beyond the story. Whether shared at bedtime, in a classroom, at a library, or with a grandparent, Under the Buttonwood Tree is a story meant to be enjoyed together—and remembered as children grow. Ages 4–6 | Preschool, Kindergarten & First Grade | Kindness • Saving • Helping Others • Patience
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About The Author

Richard K. Pettibone is a financial advisor and author whose career has been shaped by decades of helping individuals and families make thoughtful decisions about their financial lives. Over the years, he has also been involved in charitable work around the world, experiences that reinforced a lesson he has seen repeatedly: small acts of kindness, generosity, patience, and good judgment can have a lasting impact on people's lives. Those experiences became part of the inspiration for Under the Buttonwood Tree. Richard wanted to introduce children to important values early—before money decisions become complicated and before poor financial habits have a chance to take hold. Through the story of Leo and Emma, he brings together lessons about kindness, saving with care, helping others, patience, and thoughtful decision-making in a way young children can understand and remember. Richard believes that when children are introduced to these ideas early, parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers have an opportunity to build a stronger foundation for the choices they will make later in life. A central part of his mission is to place Under the Buttonwood Tree in the hands of children and educators, including teachers in Title I elementary schools, so these conversations can begin.
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