The Silver Christmas Tree - Pat Hutchins

Squirrel decorates his tree for Christmas & is delighted when a star shines at the top of it - but then morning comes & it's disappeared! He sees his friends with parcels & thinks they may have hidden it, but when they give him the parcels on Christmas Day he's sad to find they contain presents & not his star. Luckily things all turn out fine in the end & they all have a lovely Christmas. This is unmistakeably a Pat Hutchins creation, with her heavily decorated animals that are so stylized as to be almost expressionless. For me this makes the book seem much older than it is, & Squirrel's decorating the tree with pine cones & ...  Read the complete review

The Silver Christmas Tree When the first signs of Christmas come along (usually 1st December), I feel the need to get out all my books related to the season, and start reading them at home and school. This is one of the books I have had for years, and which seems to come out every year…there are lots of story times between 1st December and school finishing! ~~STORY AND ILLUSTRATIONS~~ We meet Squirrel, decorating his tree (obviously the one in which he lives), for Christmas. He hangs holly, ivy and pine cones on the tree but feels it needs MOIRE! So, he adds more decorations, and although he works till it is dark, he is still dissatisfied ...  Read the complete review