Describes the origin and significance of using evergreen trees at Christmastime, how they are grown, cut, and shipped, how to choose a good tree, and how to care for it.

Even before Christmas celebrations began, evergreen trees were used as part of winter festivals and celebrations. Today, many people still bring a real fir tree into their home at Christmastime, or an artificial tree that may come in any color including green, silver, or pink. Written with age-appropriate language and content, this book explains the symbolism behind our use of Christmas trees today and the many famous trees readers may know, including...

In coastal towns and communities across the nation, Christmas trees are, repurposed after the holiday season into the foundations for sand dunes in places where the dunes have been, weakened or eliminated over time by natural erosion. Sand dunes are essential to the maintenance and safety of coastal beaches and the communities that reside therein. This is the story of "Bough" the Christmas tree. A young and ambitious tree, who is looking forward to...

A family discusses the origin of the Christmas tree as it decorates its own.

FREE IN DECEMBER.All dressed up and no place to go? Not so fast!Christmas trees have a life too. Magic sparkle dust from the wands of Christmas eve gnomes transports them all, for one hour only, to The Valley of the Christmas Trees. Contests, present making, and the annual parade await. How do we know this to be true? Read this account of a young boy and his unusual Christmas Eve adventure. Ages 8 and up.The story is set in the early 1900s .It is...

Welcome to Holiday Tree Farms — the largest Christmas tree farm in the world. Located in Corvallis, Oregon, 30-year veteran tree farmer Mark Arkills uses a combination of helicopters (that's right, helicopters) and brute force to harvest over one million trees every year. With a sales window of just a few short weeks, stopping is not an option. This video is from the Planet Earth collection of Great Big Stories.

Big Shark and Little Shark find a Christmas tree and set out to decorate it with underwater ornaments.

An eager little Christmas tree, not very tall or well-shaped, is the last on the lot but when it seems all hope of being covered with lights and ornaments is lost, a special person comes to take him home.

At a Christmas tree farm, a young pine tree who does not like people, decorations, or lights grows into a twisted, spooky, old tree, just right for Halloween.