Every year a tree is chosen to be the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. This is the story about one of the trees chosen and the family it belonged to. Originally published in Family Circle Magazine in 1954.
Leonard Weisgard Books
Leonard Weisgard was a celebrated illustrator whose work shaped the visual landscape for countless children's books. Deeply influenced by primitive art, Gothic and Renaissance painting, and avant-garde French illustrators, Weisgard employed a rich palette of colors and media, from gouache to pen and ink, to imbue his illustrations with vibrancy and magic. His passion for high-quality children's literature stemmed from his own youthful dissatisfaction with monotonous artwork, driving him to present a visually rich and captivating world to young readers.
The Athhenians in the Classical Period
- 80 pages
- 3 hours of reading