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The Beautiful Christmas Tree Hardcover – September 27, 1999

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Product Details

  • Age Range: 4 - 7 years
  • Grade Level: Preschool - 3
  • Hardcover: 32 pages
  • Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (September 27, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0395913659
  • ISBN-13: 978-0395913659
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 10.3 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,935,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
BEWARE: the version illustrated by Yan Nascimbene is an undisclosed abridgement!
By Molly Grue on February 1, 2012
Format: Hardcover
I own a copy of The Beautiful Christmas Tree by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Ruth Robbins, published in 1972 by Parnassus Press. When I saw the 1999 edition illustrated by Yan Nascimbene, I was initially pleased that a new generation of children would enjoy this wonderful story which has been out of print for many years. Unfortunately, this sense of satisfaction soon turned to displeasure when I realized that the original text had been severely abridged. What was originally a short story with plenty of text per page has become a picture book with only a few sentences per page. Let's compare one section:

1972 ORIGINAL
When Mr. Crockett moved in it was plain that he was neither elegant nor fashionable. They saw him on weekends washing the dirty windows of his brownstone with ammonia and water, and they snorted. "He's a strange little man," they said, and their lips were tight as they talked about him. "Imagine doing it himself!" They had regular window washers who squeegeed their windows clean during the week. But the gnarled little man named Donald Crockett washed his windows until they shone and sparkled like a sheet of mountain air---fresh and clean. No one knew much about Mr. Crockett because the neighbors didn't care to talk to someone who worked all week and scrubbed the white steps of his own brownstone on weekends. He did it slowly and carefully, as though he enjoyed it, dipping his gnarled stubby hands into the bucket of foamy water, scrubbing back and forth on the step. Sometimes he took a pocket knife out of his corduroy jacket and worked the point around till the dirt came loose. The neighbors clucked when they saw him on his hands and knees that way.Read more ›
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A lovely story for children
By P. Mann VINE VOICE on December 18, 2008
Format: Hardcover
On a fashionable street lined with brownstones, one home is empty, too run-down for the "fashionable" people to move in. One day, Mr. Crockett moves in and, to the neighbors' astonishment, begins to clean the building himself. In front of each of the more fashionable buildings, there is a lovely tree. Mr. Crockett has none until he goes to a shop to buy a sad little tree (reminiscent of A Charlie Brown Christmas). For a year, he tends the tree carefully and pours out crumbs for the birds while neighbors look upon him with scorn and Christmas carolers pass by his house. However, as Mr. Crockett knows, "beauty is as beauty does." Adults will know the ending without my giving it away here. Children, I imagine, will enjoy the ending without seeing it coming.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A lovely story for children
By P. Mann VINE VOICE on December 18, 2008
Format: Hardcover
On a fashionable street lined with brownstones, one home is empty, too run-down for the "fashionable" people to move in. One day, Mr. Crockett moves in and, to the neighbors' astonishment, begins to clean the building himself. In front of each of the more fashionable buildings, there is a lovely tree. Mr. Crockett has none until he goes to a shop to buy a sad little tree (reminiscent of A Charlie Brown Christmas). For a year, he tends the tree carefully and pours out crumbs for the birds while neighbors look upon him with scorn and Christmas carolers pass by his house. However, as Mr. Crockett knows, "beauty is as beauty does." Adults will know the ending without my giving it away here. Children, I imagine, will enjoy the ending without seeing it coming.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A lovely story for children
By P. Mann VINE VOICE on December 18, 2008
Format: Hardcover
On a fashionable street lined with brownstones, one home is empty, too run-down for the "fashionable" people to move in. One day, Mr. Crockett moves in and, to the neighbors' astonishment, begins to clean the building himself. In front of each of the more fashionable buildings, there is a lovely tree. Mr. Crockett has none until he goes to a shop to buy a sad little tree (reminiscent of A Charlie Brown Christmas). For a year, he tends the tree carefully and pours out crumbs for the birds while neighbors look upon him with scorn and Christmas carolers pass by his house. However, as Mr. Crockett knows, "beauty is as beauty does." Adults will know the ending without my giving it away here. Children, I imagine, will enjoy the ending without seeing it coming.
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