The Little Crooked Christmas Tree by Michael Cutting

All around us we see so many things that reminds us of that special time of year – CHRISTMAS! Lights and decorations are being put up and the shops are getting busier by the day. There are so many beautiful Christmas stories to read and tonight we read a very special one. My son loved it and even though he is only 7, he understood what the story behind the story is. It tells about how you can give just by helping somebody else and some day when you least expect it, it might be returned in your favour.

From the book: Among the rows and rows of little trees growing on Brown’s Christmas Tree Farm, there is one little tree that is not like the others. This little spruce asks the same two questions of every creature he meets: “What is Christmas? What is a Christmas tree?”

He gets no reply, until the day he shelters a white dove from a storm. Through that friendship, the little tree learns the meaning of love, sacrifice — and Christmas.