The legend of the Christmas tree

By Rick Osborne

Book Overview

Have you ever wondered how the evergreen tree first became a symbol of Christmas? This wonderful story about a family quite like yours is filled with beautiful illustrations that add a deep warmth and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006CA1TC
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Val Productions
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is a Legend

Don’t forget get it’s a Legend the author is not claiming historical fact but traditions. I personally love how he incorporates the Trinity into the story. It is centered around a family event and a farmer sharing part of the Christmas Traditions we all love. Getting the Christmas tree! If we could all just share at least one year of getting a real Christmas tree from a farm as a family. Moments shared are memories for a lifetime.

Missed the mark

I so wanted to love this book, but it completely missed the mark. I bought it hoping this book was going to be similar to the beautiful story "The Legend of the Candy Cane" by Lori Walburg, but if that's what you're looking for you'll want to pass on this one. The story felt very flat and random in places. But my biggest bugaboo was that the author credits Martin Luther with a role in the creation of the traditional Christmas tree (which is not accurate), and I can't very well read a story about the history of the Christmas tree to the children if it's not factually correct. Such a bummer, not going to be treasuring this one.

Not what I was looking for

I was expecting this to be more of a generic Christmas legend, but it promotes the doctrine of the Trinity as its basis. I didn't find the story telling to be very captivating either.