Toby's Treehouse

By Bette Sartore

Some children learn to fly not with wings, but with imagination.

Toby is a little boy who lives with asthma, a condition that can make even breathing feel like hard work. But when his father builds him a treehouse and gives him a telescope, Toby discovers a whole world waiting above the branches. One day, through his telescope, he spots a small blue bird, and follows it on an adventure so vivid he forgets, just for a while, that he can't really fly.

In that forgetting, Toby learns something many children with chronic illness need to hear: that imagination can carry you further than fear ever will.

Toby's Treehouse is a gentle, uplifting picture book for children coping with asthma or other health challenges, and for the parents, teachers, and therapists who want to show them that resilience can feel like an adventure, not a battle. Written by Bette Sartore, an Applied Behavioural Therapist and mother of an autistic son, this story blends real emotional insight with the warmth of a bedtime tale.

A story about a treehouse, a telescope, and a little blue bird, and the child who discovers that some things cannot be limited by the body, only set free by the mind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022886772X
• ISBN13: 9780228867722
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Length: 22 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7