It's Molly Mouse's first Christmas. She admires the beautiful Christmas tree she sees through the window of a house, and wishes she could have one just like it. So encouraged by her mother, and with the help of her siblings, she sets off to find decorations for a tree of her own. After collecting bits and pieces of bright and shiny materials from various animals that would normally chase mice, the mice decorate a tree in the woods, only to be disappointed by the results of their labor. But in the middle of the night, something magical has happened, and all the animals of the wood come to admire Molly's tree.
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From Publishers Weekly
Molly Mouse wants a tree, and with her mother's encouragement she and her siblings forage for decorations. Each ornament they find a snippet of ribbon, a crab apple and so on belongs to a predator, but because it's Christmas, there's a bit of a truce in the air. In a climactic finale, all the animals gather peacefully beneath a glittering tree (literally, thanks to silver foil overlay stardust). Sweet but not treacly, this agreeable tale from a British team is graced with soft, expressive watercolors. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
reS-Gr 2-An expansive picture book whose engaging animal characters live at ground level in a verdant forest. Molly Mouse is enthralled when she spies a Christmas tree shining and glittering inside a house. Wanting one like it, she enlists the help of her siblings and they go off to the woods. They encounter natural enemies-a dog, a fox, a magpie, a cat-who, because it's Christmas, are kind to them and acquire some objects that would make nice ornaments. The mice eventually find an evergreen and adorn it with their found items, but with disappointing results. The tree is "magically" transformed, however, when the forest creatures add decorations and a frost makes everything glitter (foil snowflakes and stars). "And because it was Christmas, all the animals from the woods sat quietly around the tree, at peace with each other." The unforced childlike appeal of the plot and pictures carries the story winningly.-S. P.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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