Looking for a touching story to read to your children at Christmas time? Try "The Timid Christmas Tree" by Gary Peterson.

Bridget is five years old and all excited about going to the woods to get a Christmas tree. When she finds just the right one, she discovers it is alive and frightened.  How will she keep her brother from cutting down? Can she convince him that she isn't crazy that the tree is really alive?

A Touching Christmas story that will make an awesome bed time story all year round.