Tomanji and the Hundred-Acorn Tree: a Money Story About Patience, Growing, How Little Becomes Lot.

What do you get from one little acorn? Wait and see...All Tomanji's friends ate their acorns in one happy afternoon. But when Tomanji meets Winnie - the oldest tortoise in the wood, resting beneath a giant oak she planted long ago - he decides to do something daring with his very last acorn. He plants it.Then comes the hard part: waiting. Through snow and sprout and sunshine, season after season, Tomanji learns that you cannot rush a tree - but if you tend it and let it grow, one little acorn can become ten, then fifty, then a whole hundred. Enough to share with everyone... and one to plant all over again.A warm, funny read-aloud that turns patience, saving, and watching a little grow into a lot into a story children ask for again and again.- A cosy story that turns through all four seasons, for ages 3-7- Gently teaches patience, growth, and how a little becomes a lot - through story, never a lecture- Introduces Winnie the wise old tortoise to the Whispering Wood friends- Includes a Note for Grown-Ups, talking points, and a free "Plant & Watch" activity- Book 5 of the Expedition Money Adventures "Plant it, tend it, let it be - one little acorn makes a tree!"