Customer Reviews

The Little Fir Tree

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You may remember this one from your childhood and now it's time for the grandchildren to have a chance. This is a before Christmas read full of gentle life lessons of kindness and true Christmas spirit. A great story to read and reread. This one will be a family classic to pull out every year and be passed from parent to child for years to come.

What a beautiful book! I just read this to my son and it brought tears to my heart. A touching and moving story about the love of a father. To say this is a book just about Christmas is to miss the point entirely - it is a book about how the Christmas spirit is alive and well throughout the year and a reminder of how we should celebrate that love daily.

This was one of five books I selected as a gift for a young couple just having had their first child. Believing in the "power" of books, believing in an early exposure to words and pictures, I felt this lovely story by Margaret Wise Brown would be a perfect choice. Not having read the book previously, I made sure I did so before sending this group of selections off. Parents and child will love the story and accompanying illustrations.

Sweet to cuddle up with in the days before Christmas. My 7 and 4 year old grandchildren, both, listened intently. In small ways, it is about love and courage, giving and gratitude and the goodness of nature. The illustrations are beautiful.

This is a lovely & loving story. The pictures are beautiful. My step brother-in-law is the artist and he's an award winning illustrator of some very special children's books including RAINBABIES.

It's a lovely story if the parent has time to explain. Initially it is sad, that the little boy can't walk. And my 3 year old had so many questions and a long face, till the end of the story. Once I read it once, and she realized it was a happy ending she was fine with it. She loved the christmas song in it.

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Fir Tree" is a cautionary tale in which the ambitious little tree meets a sad end, but Margaret Wise Brown has given her little fir tree a happier fate. As in Andersen's tale, a little tree admires the taller trees in the forest and wishes to be as grand as they are, but this tree is not cut down at Christmas. Instead a father carefully digs it up and plants it in a great wooden tub at the foot of his lame son's bed.

Warm, realistic pictures in colored charcoal bring a luminous glow to the pages. In fact, the illustrations are better than the text.

Never mind that the miracle at the end is somewhat forced. The tree lives on, returned to the forest, and the final scene leaves a warm-fuzzy feeling lingering with readers young and old.