For months, eight-year-old Manon has been spending her afternoons alone under a giant birch tree in the garden. She devours one book after another and talks to ants and cats, just to avoid thinking about one thing: the disappearance of her mother. Neither her father Pierre nor her aunt Sophie can comfort the quiet girl. However, Manon's loneliness softens the heart of the grumpy neighbor Anatole. They begin to read The Little Prince together, and an extraordinary friendship develops. When letters from her mother unexpectedly arrive one day, the girl and the old man devise a bold plan that takes them, along with Pierre and Sophie, on an adventurous journey across Europe. "Trees Travel at Night" is a charming novel about a family reinventing itself and the courage of a little girl to turn dreams into reality.