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When the Christmas Deer chooses him for the Christmas harvest, Treewing, a five-year-old tree, is surprised since it is a year early, but is told he has been picked for a special destiny. No library descriptions found. |
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Although I am familiar with author Dia Calhoun's longer fantasies for middle-grade readers, I wasn't sure quite what to expect from The Return of Light: A Christmas Tale, a brief sixty-seven-page chapter-book I picked up off my library's holiday display almost on a whim. As I was reading it, I was reminded of the recently published The Christmas Eve Tree by Delia Huddy, which also dealt with a Christmas tree that is not purchased, and which becomes a focal point for a group of homeless people, and then part of a celebration involving the wider community. I was conscious, moreover, of a feeling that there was something sentimental about the story, in a way that felt a little too overt for my tastes. All that said, despite these feelings, I was still quite moved by parts of the story, and even got a little teary-eyed from time to time as I was reading. I appreciated the idea of the light returning being a central part of Christmas, as this ties in to part of what makes the celebration of the holiday so powerful, coinciding as it does with the Winter Solstice here in the northern hemisphere. Recommended to anyone looking for beginning chapter-books about Christmas trees and/or the power of giving and light to heal wounded hearts at this time of year. ( )