My Wonderful Christmas Tree is a holiday classic that conveys the feeling of the Christmas season outdoors in New England.
From the snowy, wintery window of her art studio, Dahlov Ipcar sees a wild and wondrous world. With vivid imagination and vibrant colors, she captures a lively part of the Christmas season at her farm in Maine. From one shining star that graces the top of a living outdoor tree, she envisions many captivating creatures of the field and forest who come to visit.
From young black bears to snowy owls, from evening grosbeaks to happy chipmunks,
this book presents a lively panorama of wild creatures she has seen and enjoyed.
The book was based on a one-page poem, "The Wonderful Christmas Tree," that Dahlov wrote for her only book of poetry, Whispering and Other Things (1967). The rhyming text marks a bit of a departure for her, and she says she's not sure where it came from. "I'd always played with poetry," she says, and found that the verses for this Christmas tribute came naturally to her.
EXCERPT “I looked out my window
On Christmas night,
And there I saw
A most wonderful sight –
One shining star,
One brilliant light,
Sparkling, glimmering,
Gleaming bright,
High in my tree
On Christmas night,
One shining star. ”
