If I Could Give You Christmas
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
This sweet story about animal parents and children reminds readers of the best part of Christmas—sharing beautiful songs, special stories, fun games, and favorite treats with the ones we love most, big and small.
Skating on a frozen pond, decorating the fanciest gingerbread house ever, rereading a favorite story . . . these activities and more are brought to life through a variety of animal pairs. The tastes, smells, sights, and sounds of the holiday are evoked in universal scenes showing special moments being shared by parent and child. Adults will appreciate the theme of passing on traditions and the message that it doesn't take a lot of stuff to celebrate Christmas. Kids will enjoy the playful, loving scenes. Sharing this book could become a brand new family tradition!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A pristine snowy woodland plays backdrop for animal parents introducing favorite holiday sights, sounds, smells, and activities to their furred and feathered children. On each spread, Plourde delivers old-fashioned Christmas imagery via spare, poetic text. A beaver parent, shown in Meyer's soft art holding up a small evergreen bough tied with a red ribbon, sits alongside the words "if I could give you Christmas,/ it would be the freshest,/ pointiest, piney-est tree." For two otters, sporting red scarves and whizzing by on a toboggan, Christmas delight is "gliding, snow-white sliding." And at book's end, Plourde flips the script "If YOU could give ME Christmas" revealing the most important gift of all as a bunny parent and child snuggle in fluffy scarves and mittens. Ages 3 5.
