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A Tree is Nice is a children's picture book written by Janice May Udry and illustrated by Marc Simont. It was published by Harper and Brothers in 1956, and won the Caldecott Medal in 1957. [ 1 ] The book tells Udry's poetic opinion on why trees are nice:
Janet and Allan Ahlberg, The Jolly Christmas Postman [2] Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace [2] [3] L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus; Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Stick Man [2] Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box, The Light of Christmas [2] [4] Cornelia Funke, When Santa Fell to Earth; Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas
A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been translated into several languages; the story has been adapted many times for film, stage, opera and other media. A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the early Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of ...
Paul H. Kocher, whilst writing for the journal Mythprint, suggested that the creatures in the Letters from Father Christmas may have been a precursor to those which appeared in Tolkien's later works such as The Lord of the Rings, [15] a view which was shared by Laurence and Martha Krieg in a review in the journal Mythlore (issue #14). [16]