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| Christmas is coming and Anslem wants a real Christmas tree more than anything else. There are no Christmas trees in the West Indies where Anslem lives, so he must depend on the boat that brings evergreens from the north. In other years, the trees arrived looking fresh and green. But this year, the first year his family can afford a tree, the evergreens are so dry not one tree has a single needle on it. Anselm believes that Christmas will not be Christmas without a Christmas tree. Then Miss Mary, Anslem's neighbor, shows the boy that the islands have their own kind of Christmas trees. "The poinsettia! The poinsettia!" Anslem cries. "Them is Christmas tree for true!" Vashanti Rahaman's heartfelt story, illustrated by Frane Lessac with all the colors of the West Indies, tells how Christmas is celebrated in another land. |
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