Patricia Toht

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Oh, Christmas Tree!

12/29/2017

 
What a Christmas season it was! I was kept busy as I visited bookstores, baby stores, libraries and museums. I had a wonderful time with kids (and young-at-heart adults, too) as we:
• pretended to stomp through a forest, looking for a tree,
• learned a hand rhyme about Santa popping from a chimney,
• joined together for a lively reading of PICK A PINE TREE, and
• decorated the silliest pine tree that kids had ever seen.


(That is my son, Will, as the human Christmas tree. He was a gentleman and true sport, and I am so grateful for his help.)


At most places I visited, the children decorated Christmas tree ornaments to add to their own trees. They also added their names to paper strips that were later linked together to make a giant PICK A PINE TREE paper chain. On Christmas Eve, I draped the paper chain around my own Christmas tree. Oh my, what a lovely sight! My heart, and my tree branches, were overflowing. I will never know another Christmas like my first Christmas with PICK A PINE TREE. 
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    Patricia Toht
    Children's author and poet, middle school library associate, reader, traveler