Christmas Tree: Two Tales for the Holidays

by David Adams Richards

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670065587
• ISBN13: 9780670065585
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Two short stories

This book consists of two short stories, "Carmichael's Dog" and "The Christmas Tree." In the first, two boys find a puppy in the snow and decide, not entirely selflessly, to give the puppy to their mother as a Christmas gift. After all, their dog Lucky died recently, so the boys' mother would surely like another dog. On the way home, though, another child sees the boys carrying the dog and, knowing that Mr. Carmichael is looking for a lost dog, decides to tell on the boys. In the second story, a quest for a Christmas tree does not go quite as planned. I really cannot say much more than that without divulging too much of the story. These stories, especially "Carmichael's Dog," are good for children, but adults should also enjoy them. I thought "The Christmas Tree" the better of the two, but I suspect younger readers would find "Carmichael's Dog" more to their liking. Either way, both stories are well crafted and well written, capturing children's love of Christmas from the perspective of an adult narrator who has not entirely grown up himself and cannot help but include a bit of nostalgia in the stories.