| Trees -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Christmas trees -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Halloween -- Juvenile fiction |
| Dendrology |
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Searching... New Bedford Casa da Saudade Branch | J PIC HOL MONTANARI | CHILDREN HOLIDAY | Searching... Unknown |
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Searching... Swansea Public Library | C MON (HALLOWEEN) | CHILDREN HOLIDAY | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Taunton Public Library | E HOLIDAY MONTANARI | CHILDRENS ROOM | Searching... Unknown |
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Summary
Summary
A charming, funny, and heartwarming kids Halloween picture book that will help to start a new seasonal tradition. Perfect for kids 3-5 or any young child in your life that wants to celebrate the spookiest season of the year.
Everyone knows most young saplings dream of becoming Christmas trees. But one grumpy, old tree who doesn't like lights, decorations, or people is determined to be different. Get ready to meet the Halloween Tree!
The Halloween Tree is not your average holiday book and is sure to warm the hearts of kids and adults-alike as a gnarly tree finds his place in the world. This festive tale will have all youngsters shouting "Trick or tree!" with glee and decorating their own Halloween trees by the final page. The perfect Halloween gift for babies and kids alike!
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
On a Christmas tree farm, a curmudgeonly needleless sapling grumbles that it dreads being uprooted: "I don't like lights, I don't like decorations, and I don't like people." After a housing development replaces the farm, the gnarled tree ends up on a family's lawn, where neighborhood kids turn its knotty branches into a pirate ship, a hideout, a spaceship, and a dragon. Martinez fills this 8×8 with vivid digital illustrations suggestive of animated cartoons, cleverly tweaking the tree's facial expressions to morph from grumpy (amid Christmas tree buyers) to tolerant (serving as the kids' playground) to forlorn (when winter keeps the children indoors) to chagrin (when the parents threaten to cut it down) to satisfied--if somewhat skeptical--when the youngsters decorate it for Halloween and exclaim, "Trick or tree!" A slight yet diverting holiday offering. Ages 3--7. (Aug.)
Kirkus Review
A grouchy sapling on a Christmas tree farm finds that there are better things than lights and decorations for its branches.A Grinch among the other trees on the farm is determined never to become a sappy Christmas treeand never to leave its spot. Its determination makes it so: It grows gnarled and twisted and needle-less. As time passes, the farm is swallowed by the suburbs. The neighborhood kids dare one another to climb the scary, grumpy-looking tree, and soon, they are using its branches for their imaginative play, the tree serving as a pirate ship, a fort, a spaceship, and a dragon. But in winter, the tree stands alone and feels bereft and lonely for the first time ever, and it can't look away from the decorated tree inside the house next to its lot. When some parents threaten to cut the "horrible" tree down, the tree thinks, "Not now that my limbs are full of happy children," showing how far it has come. Happily for the tree, the children won't give up so easily, and though the tree never wished to become a Christmas tree, it's perfectly content being a "trick or tree." Martinez's digital illustrations play up the humorous dichotomy between the happy, aspiring Christmas trees (and their shoppers) and the grumpy tree, and the diverse humans are satisfyingly expressive.Just the thing for anyone with a Grinch-y tree of their own in the yard. (Picture book. 4-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.