***** 2021 Family Choice Award Winner *****
Book Description:
During the day, the Miller family’s Christmas tree stands tall in their living room, sparkling with lights and ornaments. Little does the family know that their Christmas tree is anything but ordinary. Each evening, the magic of Christmas brings their tree to life—much to the delight of Hannah and William Miller. Follow along as Hannah and William experience the magic of Christmas in a whole new way.
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My Review
The Living Christmas Tree is a delightfully magical children's book about a special Christmas tree and the ornaments that adorn it. Each holiday season, when the tree goes up, the ornaments come to life. They spend the year hibernating, but once they're on the tree, the magic makes them come alive. The ornaments enjoy racing up and down the tree, singing Christmas carols, and telling stories. But what happens when, one night, one of the children wakes and spies them moving about on the tree?
I thought this was such a cute, fun book. It's got wonderful illustrations and an easy-to-read story, and young readers will love how festive and enchanting it is.
A must-read for children for the holidays.
5 stars!
Guest Post
Getting Started:
An Unusual Path to Becoming an Author
I have dreamed of being an author since I was a child. The only problem was that I actually didn’t like my English or writing classes in school! I distinctly remember sitting in my tenth-grade writing class, beyond frustrated with the writing prompt we were given. My next class was Honors English, which I equally loathed. It just so happened that our guidance counselor was there to talk with us about how we should start thinking about what we would want to major in if we went to college. After hearing a classmate ask questions about going to medical school, I promptly decided that if she could go to medical school, then I could too! That day, I went to the guidance counselor’s office and immediately dropped my writing course and picked up anatomy and physiology instead.
It was quite the spontaneous
decision to completely switch the trajectory of my future, but it paid off. I
ended up loving the medical sciences and graduated with my masters from
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where I studied to be a Physician Assistant.
I practiced clinically as a Physician Assistant for over eight years and
thoroughly enjoyed it, but the desire to be a published author still lingered
in the back of my mind.
One day, while sitting in my living
room, an idea came to me for a storyline for a children’s book. The idea truly
just popped into my head. I wrote it down and ended up submitting it to a few
publishers. To my complete surprise, my book, The Princess Puppy, was
picked up by Mascot Books! Fast forward a few months later, and I was tutoring
a local high school student before Christmas break, when out of nowhere it hit
me that I had a great idea for another children’s book! When I was little, I
would often pretend that the ornaments would come to life on my family’s Christmas
tree and have all sorts of adventures. I jotted my childhood memories down, and
the story that became The Living Christmas Tree was born and was
published about two years later.
Life is full of twists and turns,
but I am so glad that I could accomplish my lifelong dream of becoming a
published author. It’s a lot of work to write, edit, and publish a book, but
it’s so worth it to see your ideas come to life on paper and have the joy of
sharing them with others. I encourage any aspiring author to keep writing and
reading! The more you write and read, the more inspiration you gain, and you
never know when an idea may come to life for you!
Enter the Giveaway:
THE LIVING CHRISTMAS TREE Book Tour Giveaway
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