Part of the magic of the Christmas season comes from the holiday traditions we look forward to<\/strong> and take part in each year: hanging stockings, putting candles in the windows, stringing lights outside, and one of the most important of all, picking out and bringing home the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n With palpable warmth and style, debut author Patricial Toht reminds us of all the rituals we go through to decorate our tree. Follow along as one family digs out the b<\/strong>oxes brimming with ornaments and trimmings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n To make it more fun, they call their family and friends and invite them to an impromptu, tree trimming party. With family and friends, they deck the tree out, and then, turn on the twinkling lights.<\/p>\n Holiday spirit crackles in Toht’s warm, step-by-step recounting of how humble stately pines transform into shimmering Christmas trees\u2026Jarvis’s chalk and pencil texturing adds to the sense of a casual, homey holiday filled with traditions many families will recognize. The pencil, chalk, paint, and digitally colored paintings are brimming with holiday cheer and warmth. Share with little ones prior to decorating a tree or as secular Christmas fare for holiday storytimes. Toht’s rhyming text is greatly illuminated by Jarvis’s mixed-media illustrations, which imbue each step in the process with holiday warmth and capably capture that satisfying, twinkling glow of Christmas decorations.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mommyramblings.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pick-a-pine-tree-book.jpg?resize=408%2C450\")
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<\/a>Praise for Pick A Pine Tree<\/em>:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/p>\n
\n\u2014School Library Journal<\/p>\n
\n\u2014The Horn Book<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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