The Seed of Doubt

What’s it about?

The story.

A little boy on a farm dreams of everything he might one day do: cross oceans, climb mountains, see cities. Then a bird drops a seed, and once he plants it, doubts begin to grow alongside the tree. As the tree stretches higher and higher, the boy's dreams shrink smaller and smaller — for every branch reaching up, there's a reason he tells himself he could never climb it. It takes his father, and the words he once shared, to help the boy face the tree and his own fears at last. Screenwriter Irena Brignull's spare, resonant text and Richard Jones's soft, glowing illustrations turn the everyday experience of self-doubt into a gentle, hopeful fable. A beautiful, reassuring read for any child learning that worries can take hold — and that they can also be overcome, one brave step at a time.