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The Christmas Eve Tree

32 pp. | Candlewick | September, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-7917-0 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Emily Sutton. Inadvertently tangled up with a healthier tree, a "scraggly" fir tree in a Christmas-tree forest is cut down and taken to the city. The little fir brings cheer to a homeless boy on Christmas Eve, unites the city in song, and ends up being planted in a park where, "against all odds," it flourishes. Fine-lined watercolors nod to the text's wistfulness without veering into nostalgia.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2016

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