O Christmas Tree (Sing-It!)

Rating:
Summary: Magical
Review: This book is beautiful in its simplicity. The story and art is warm and charming and will capture a young imagination during the holiday season. I gave this to a young nephew this year and his eyes lit up with delight. Looking through the book with him, I saw the wonder of Christmas reflecting in his eyes and I remembered...remembered what it felt like to be a child around home and hearth, drinking hot chocolate, singing carols, lying under an enormous tree, smelling the pine sap, staring up at hundreds of colored lights and ornaments and daydreaming.

Debbie Trafton O'Neal's story is basically the search for and enjoyment of that tree, told behind the well-known and loved Christmas carol. Ande Cook's paintings are sweet and her sense of color remarkable. You only need look at the cover of animals surrounding a tree under a star filled sky to see the magic that awaits within. As I watched my nephew pouring over it and beginning his own Christmas memories, I was lost in memories of my own "Christmases long, long ago". And this, to me, is what it's all about.

Rating:
Summary: Magical
Review: This book is beautiful in its simplicity. The story and art is warm and charming and will capture a young imagination during the holiday season. I gave this to a young nephew this year and his eyes lit up with delight. Looking through the book with him, I saw the wonder of Christmas reflecting in his eyes and I remembered...remembered what it felt like to be a child around home and hearth, drinking hot chocolate, singing carols, lying under an enormous tree, smelling the pine sap, staring up at hundreds of colored lights and ornaments and daydreaming.

Debbie Trafton O'Neal's story is basically the search for and enjoyment of that tree, told behind the well-known and loved Christmas carol. Ande Cook's paintings are sweet and her sense of color remarkable. You only need look at the cover of animals surrounding a tree under a star filled sky to see the magic that awaits within. As I watched my nephew pouring over it and beginning his own Christmas memories, I was lost in memories of my own "Christmases long, long ago". And this, to me, is what it's all about.