Very sweet and inspiring story about friendship and friends who move away from each other.

Adin and Dina are good friends that are as alike as a two cherries with one stem. Until Adin moves to the city and Dina stays in the country. Adin and Dina plant cherry trees to remind each other of their friendship. When spring arrives a string of cherry trees connects the two children.

The story is sweet and the illustrations are beautiful. It isn't necessarily realistic in the amount of time that it takes to grow a cherry tree but it expresses a sweet sentiment about friendship nonetheless.

Beautiful story about friendship withstanding distance with soft illustrations!

Sweet story, but a bit long and slow for kids I thought.

This is a touching story of two childhood friends and what it takes to stay connected and make the choice to do so. It was a very heartwarming message and the illustrations were breathtaking.

Adin and Dina are best friends "like twin cherries on the same stem". They love to climb the cherry trees on the family fruit farm and pick cherries together. When Adin's family moves away to the big city, the two friends start to plant cherry pits along the road, and in the spring the cherry blossoms create a trail leading the two friends back to one another.

This is such a sweet book about friendship and loyalty. I just love how close Adin and Dina are. They like doing everything together and can almost read each other's thoughts. Such a precious friendship! I love how this book deals with loneliness and disappointment in such a healthy way. The two friends are separated, but they still can remain connected. A beautiful story!

The illustrations are truly special. Such gorgeous colors and soft lines! The artwork is so delicate and enchanting. The scenery of the fruit farm and the beautiful cherry blossoms is absolutely exquisite. Even the setting in the city has a kind of urban charm. The changing of the seasons throughout the story really gives a strong feeling of the passing of time, and that is all due to the artwork with the falling leaves, and snow, and budding trees in each season. Even the quality of the light changes through the seasons, so that each season has its own color scheme.

I'm so impressed with the artwork and the beautiful story! This book is truly a masterpiece in children's literature.


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An absolutely beautiful story of friendship between a boy and girl. The theme of class is gently referenced but overall the story of leaving significant value and affection during separation is clear.

Adin and Dina lived on the same farm. The two of them spent long days together picking cherries on the farm and climbing high in the cherry trees. They ate the cherries and kept the pits, planting them around town in the hopes that trees would grow. But then one day, Adin’s family decided to move to the city. Adin moved to an apartment building, far from any cherry trees. Dina gave him a bag of cherry pits to take with him. He spent time creating paper airplanes, loading them with pits and launching them off his balcony. Dina did get to visit once during their year apart. The two of them quickly fell back into being close friends. When spring came, the cherry pits were gone but a path of blooming trees led right back to the farm from the city. A path that just had to be followed.

This Dutch import has a lovely quiet to it. From the quiet friendship spent together in trees eating cherries to the quiet of loneliness for a close friend, all are captured on these pages. The emotions of a friend leaving are captured beautifully too as is the lasting connection between people and places. The writing is superb, celebrating cherries and trees and steadily building to that moment in spring when trees burst into bloom.

The art of this picture book celebrates the countryside and nature. The book captures the seasons with different colors and silhouettes of the trees. The rich green of summer turns to the browns of autumn to the whites of winter and then to a vibrant light green of spring that reaches to the city with its illumination on the page.

A lovely look at a cherry of a friendship. Appropriate for ages 4-6.