Maple & Willow's Christmas Tree
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- ¥1,500
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- ¥1,500
発行者による作品情報
Lori Nichols’s delightful book celebrates the bond of two nature-loving sisters, and their ability to find fantastic kid-powered solutions to any problem—and it will give allergy sufferers an extra reason to celebrate.
Maple and Willow love trees—and now they are getting their first real Christmas tree. It is going to be the best Christmas ever! After a snowy expedition to pick out the perfect tree, it’s time to decorate. But whenever Maple gets near the tree, she starts sniffling and sneezing. Could she really be allergic to the perfect Christmas tree? And if so, how will the girls find a way to make this the best Christmas after all?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maple and her younger sister, Willow, return in their fourth picture book, and they're busy with the "hard work" of Christmas preparations, including baking cookies, selecting "the best Christmas tree... in the whole wide world," and decorating it. When Maple starts sneezing as soon as the fir tree comes inside, the sisters' visions of Christmas are upended. Nichols does a lovely job of showing the closeness between these girls (discussions of which tree is best are conducted in pig Latin) and how that closeness is, at least temporarily, threatened. "Willow, I'm sorry I ruined Christmas," Maple confesses. "I'm sorry you ruined Christmas, too," Willow replies. The younger girl's anger and disappointment are short-lived, and her (truly unexpected) solution to their allergy-driven holiday dilemma will bring smiles to readers' faces, just as it does to Maple's. Ages 3 5.
