By Erin Wood
As sights turn toward the holiday season and preparations are made for elves everywhere to come down from shelves, perhaps your family is ready for a new holiday tradition.
Released for “Christmas in July” and new for the 2019 holiday season, Christmas on the Tree, written and illustrated as a sibling collaboration by Claire, Leslie, Henry, and Charlie Wallace may be just the book you are looking for.
Through snappy prose and endearing craft illustrations, you’ll discover that being a Christmas ornament isn’t just about hanging out and spreading joy during the most wonderful time of the year.
Actually, the job is quite complicated. “First, you are stuck in a dark, boring box in a dark, boring attic or smelly basement for 11 long months. Boring!!” Plus, there are fears, dangers, and years you just don’t fit in. Will you be hung too high and in fear of falling? Too low and in fear that the dog might knock you down? Will the toy soldiers reject you because you are too round? Might everything change if you make a friend? Meet one endearing red Christmas ball and forevermore be filled with wonder about what really happens on the tree.
Available in paperback and hardback, this 11.5 x 8.5 premium color book has 32 pages and is available for order at etaliapress.com and through local and national booksellers.
A Hot Springs native, Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs Et Alia Press (etaliapress.com). Wood is author of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives (April, 2019) and editor of and a contributor to Scars: An Anthology (2015).
