By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
NOBODY knows why the trees in the Crooked Forest in Poland are just that, crooked.
But one young entrepreneur is trying to change all that through the help of a children’s book.
Jamie Crock, 21, a former Endeavour Hills Maranatha Christian School student wrote a 30-page book aimed at all ages from five years old, in just an hour.
But he adds, “it did get edited after that”.
“I had the book written in a 50-minute conversation with my mum,” Jamie said after he discovered that the reason behind the trees odd shapes is yet to be answered.
“I would love for someone to come back to us with the answer one day,” Jamie said.
The law student employed the help of school friend, Grace Fraraccio to illustrate the book.
But with the printers and binders booked in, after another project fell through, the duo had to hop to it to ensure copies would hit shelves by deadline.
Grace, also a university student studying art, who operates under Dancing Fox Illustrations, brought the inquisitive story to life through water colour paints.
It is Grace’s first collaboration on a book.
“The story is very whimsical and Jamie wrote it in quite a poetic way, it considers all the different magical possibilities as to why the trees are crooked,” Grace said.
“It encourages the reader to connect with an old man who appears throughout the story, so if there was a moral that would be it, to bond with the elderly and ask them about their past and learn from their wisdom.
“The book also touches on pondering the mysteries of life.”
Jamie will publish the book, in both soft and hard cover, under his own publishing house called TradeWinds Publishing.
Signed copies of the book will be available to buy in July, starting from $28.
Keep an eye on www.dancingfoxillustrations.com for instructions on how to buy a copy of the book.
