By Patricia Toht
A bouncy rhyme that walks through the whole day of getting a Christmas tree, from picking it out at the lot to hanging the last ornament at home.
A family heads out to the lot, walks the rows, and picks their pine tree. They haul it home, wrestle it into the stand, and start opening boxes — lights first, then tinsel, then the ornaments one at a time, everyone reaching to hang a favorite. Friends stop by, the star goes on top, and the lights finally click on. There's no plot to speak of. It's just the real order of a tree-trimming day, set to a rhyme that carries you along.
Read it the day you put your own tree up and an ordinary afternoon starts to feel like an event. It moves through every step your child already loves — choosing the tree, carrying it in, the box of tangled lights, the ornament they insist on hanging themselves — so the day on the page looks a lot like their own. The verse is short and springy, which suits the youngest listeners, and the pictures are warm enough that it keeps earning a spot in the December pile.