The First Christmas Tree

The Great Manitou knows that winter is the harshest season for the Innu, and decides to find a way to make winters a little brighter. Searching through the trees in the forest to find one to bring joy, beauty and warmth to all. Could it be the larch, the tree that the Innu use to make sleds, bows or ointments? The birch, malleable and robust? Or the magnificent black spruce? “Do you want to become the Christmas tree?” each one is asked. But one after the other, the trees decline the offer. All except one, the little fir tree, whom the Great Manitou had initially overlooked.  This book contains 28 Colour illustrations.  Audience: Ages 3-5.