Product Description

Featuring the wonderful illustrations of Tim Jonke, this best-selling children’s book tells the Easter story from a new and unusual point of view. Children will be deeply touched as they understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of Christ’s life and his atoning sacrifice on the cross.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6791 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 25 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780745917436
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"...hauntingly retold folk tale about three trees that grow up to be Jesus' manger, boat, and cross represents the best..." -- Christian Retailing, March 1991

About the Author
Angela Elwell Hunt's freelance work has appeared in many different magazines and one of her pervious children's books, If I Had Long, Long Hair won the Lorna Balian Prize for Children's Books. She lives in Largo, Florida, with her husband and two children.

Customer Reviews

A simple and timeless story, beautifully told
For three little trees who dream of what they will be someday - a holder of treasure, a fine ship, a hilltop beacon pointing to God - life proves to have something rather different in store. They are disappointed that their lives are so mundane. And, as the years pass, "the three trees nearly forgot their dreams." Yet each eventually gets its wish, although not in the way it had foreseen. When that happens, each discovers that things turned out just the way they should have. This is a moving and eloquent story. Its illustrations are simple yet powerful. Readers will be reminded that God has plans for every one of his creations, that He never loses sight any of us. Children will learn that when they don't get what they want, it may be because something even better is in store for them. Adults will understand the concept of true happiness coming when we align our will with God's.

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A Must for Every Library
I heard this story spoken one year during a summer camp evening program. When you hear this story it hits straight into your heart and stays there.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to buy this book for all the families I work with. Now whenever "Auntie" is around the children request "The Tree Story". This book is always in the car to be read to any child.

I read the other recommendations, and yes, it does bring a lump to your throat. No matter how many times I read it, this book never fails to bring tears to my eyes.

This book belongs in every library and is a great influencer in the lives of young and old. The campfire I where I first heard this story took place years ago - yet I remembered the story long before I purchased the book.

A story for the ages......

NOWHERE near as good as other versions!
This version is really bad comparitively. The trees are all the same, and it doesn't tie in the meaning of the book for youngsters as well as the version by Catherine McCafferty. In her book, each tree is a different type showing its own strenghths, and it states clearly that God has fulfilled the dreams of the trees but in much bigger ways than the trees could ever dream. This book just ends the story and doesn't tie it all up for the kids. I recommend the Catherine McCafferty version highly! There ia also a really nice video narrated by Hal Holbrooke based on the Catherine McCafferty version.