Review: Holly Holiday and the Christmas Forest - Katie Anderson - October 2022 With Christmas coming to an end and I was needing a quick read as I was in a bit of an indecisive mood, I grabbed one of the Netgalley Christmas picture book reads - Holly Holiday and the Christmas Forest by Katie Anderson. This cute picture book introduces us to Holly Holiday whose favorite holiday in the world is ---- you guessed it "Christmas". She loves everything about Christmas from wrapping up presents, to carols and decorating the Christmas tree. One morning after Christmas, Holly wakes up to discover her parents getting rid of their tree. She is horrified and upset to learn that it is dead. This gets her thinking about what she could do differently so they aren't always getting rid of dead trees at Christmas time. Eventually, Holly and her family land on the idea of buying a small Christmas tree plant and decorating that, and each year after Christmas is over the family travel out to t...

#VBT Review - Bruce the Spruce - A.A Cristi - November 2021 Bruce the Christmas Tree has always been the spiffiest and neatest tree around as he is every year worshipped and adored as he is decorated with the best of decorations and admired. For Bruce, he has never dreamed of being anything but the best Christmas tree around, and now his family is tossing him out and upgrading. This upsets Bruce as he feels like it is the end of the world and we read as Bruce gets depressed but soon, he is adopted by another family who will treasure him and in doing so Bruce the Spruce will learn the true meaning of Christmas and what it means to be loved for who you are and the connectedness of family and love. This picture book is ideal for children aged 4-8 years old and had the most gorgeous illustrations and the perfect read for the upcoming month as we are coming into the Christmas season. The other thing I loved about this book was it gave me happy memories of my own trip in New York in Decemb...

VBT# The Living Christmas Tree - Kristin Sponaugle - September 2021 With Christmas just around the corner, it is that time again with all the Christmas picture books being released and Kristin Sponaugle has released a gorgeous magical Christmas story with beautiful illustrations and is the perfect read for children aged 6-9 years old. It is Christmas time at the Miller's house and this year Hannah and William have decorated their Christmas tree beautifully. I love decorating Christmas trees and everything about Christmas as there is something magical about it and with the Living Christmas Tree, Magic is about to be injected into the story as this tree isn't just a boring pine tree but at night when everyone is sleeping it comes alive and gets up to all sorts of mischief, mayhem, and hijinks and if Hannah and William are lucky, they maybe able to catch glimpses of the tree's adventures . This Christmas season the Millers are about to learn about Christmas in a fun adven...