Patricia Toht once owned a children’s bookshop called Never
Never Land before turning a love of books into a love of writing.
Pick a Pine Tree is her debut picture book. Patricia Toht lives
in Atascadero, CA.
Jarvis is an illustrator and animator who has worked as both
a record jacket designer and an animation director. He is the
author-illustrator of Alan’s Big, Scary Teeth. Jarvis lives in
Manchester, England.
The short, rhyming text has a bouncy, appealing tone...Delightful
mixed-media illustrations use a flattened perspective, simple
shapes, and glowing, light-filled backgrounds for a fresh take on
the tree-decorating tradition. The illustrations are all in
double-page-spread format with compositions that will work well for
reading to a group or with just one child in a lap. Pick this
delightful story for a Christmas storytime, for library
collections, or for family reading around the Christmas tree.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Holiday spirit crackles in Toht’s warm, step-by-step recounting of
how humble stately pines transform into shimmering Christmas
trees...Jarvis’s chalk and pencil texturing adds to the sense of a
casual, homey holiday filled with traditions many families will
recognize.
—Publishers Weekly
The pencil, chalk, paint, and digitally colored paintings are
brimming with holiday cheer and warmth. Share with little ones
prior to decorating a tree or as secular Christmas fare for holiday
storytimes.
—School Library Journal
Toht’s rhyming text is greatly illuminated by Jarvis’s mixed-media
illustrations, which imbue each step in the process with holiday
warmth and capably capture that satisfying, twinkling glow of
Christmas decorations.
—The Horn Book
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