What it's like to be a Christmas Tree

Does it hurt a Christmas tree when you cut it down?

That’s what Doug, the little tree, wants to know when he finds out he’s being raised on a Christmas Tree Farm, and that his biggest job is to be cut down and decorated by some family.

“CUT IT DOWN!” Doug was trying to pull his roots out of the ground. He wasn’t quite sure what he’d do if he got them out—roll down the hill or something. Doug had never felt so stuck before. He couldn’t understand why Royal wanted to be cut down—just to make some family happy? But, as Doug finds out, it’s not at all that scary and he even enjoys the surprise that awaits him.

This little story introduces children to the concepts of ecology and cooperation.