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TheNinth
Since: Nov, 2009
2nd Dec, 2011 12:25:04 PM
Mr Willowby's Christmas Tree, perhaps?
http://www.amazon.com/Willowbys-Christmas-Tree-Robert-Barry/dp/0440407265/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
FuzzyBoots
Since: Jan, 2001
3rd Dec, 2011 07:48:20 AM
Yes! Exactly. :) Was it one you were familiar with or are you just better at figuring out keywords for searching?
TheNinth
Since: Nov, 2009
5th Dec, 2011 06:44:34 AM
I am a master of searching! :)
I've got a plot and a few mental images to run off of. Kids book, would have been published prior to 1985 because that's the earliest I remember reading it. Started with a family buying a huge Christmas tree to put in their foyer except it was too big (the illustration showed it bent over against the ceiling) so they had someone go up and cut the last few feet off. Someone else (a gardener, I think?) takes that piece home but it doesn't fit in his apartment (he may have had it up on a table) so he chops a bit off. Someone else takes that and chops off a bit and so on. The last character is a mouse who sets the tree in a stand made out of a carrot slice.
I want to say there were illustrations for every page and there couldn't have been too many pages because there's a limit on how many slices you can take off the tree before it gets absurd.