A porcupine in a pine tree collection

by Helaine Becker, Werner Zimmerman (Illustrator)

A special gift edition of the quintessential Canadian Christmas series! Sing your way through the season with Porcupine, Beaver, Moose and the gang! This special gift edition contains all three bestselling holiday A Porcupine in a Pine Tree , Dashing Through the Snow and Deck the Halls . Get ready for merriment and mayhem with your favourite all-Canadian carols! Includes musical arrangements for all three songs, so readers can play along on piano or guitar.

Genres: Christmas

90 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Helaine Becker has written over 70 books, including the #1 National bestseller, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree,and its sequel, Dashing through the Snow, Sloth at the Zoom, Dirk Daring, Secret Agent, the Looney Bay All-Stars chapter book series, non-fiction including Counting on Katherine, Worms for Breakfast and Zoobots (all Junior Library Guild Selections), Monster Science, You Can Read, Lines Bars and Circles, and Boredom Blasters, plus many picture books and young adult novels. She also writes for children’s magazines and for children's television. Her show Dr. Greenie's Mad Lab was a finalist at MIP.com Junior in Cannes.
She has won the Lane Anderson Award for Science Writing for Children twice,once for The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea and once for The Insecto-Files, and the Picture Book of the Year Award from the Canadian Booksellers Association for A Porcupine in a Pine Tree. She has also won three Silver Birch awards and a Red Cedar award.

Helaine Becker holds U.S. and Canadian citizenship. She attended high school in New York, university in North Carolina (Go Blue Devils!!!!) and now lives in Toronto with her husband and dog, Ella. She has two really handsome sons.

Reviews

[Lynn Davidson]

This large red hard-covered book is beautifully illustrated. It includes three popular Christmas songs with a humorous Canadian adaptation. The main characters are Porcupine, Moose, Beaver, and their friends.
Contents:
A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas; Dashing Through the Snow: A Canadian Jingle Bells;
Deck the Halls: A Canadian Christmas Carol
Musical arrangements for each is at the back of the book.

[Susan Earle]

Loved three classics together in this charming Canadian Christmas collection.

[Macklin]

Canadian versions of Christmas songs. Could have done without the mounties. but the singing moose made up for it.

[Alison N]

Holiday carols you know and love, but with a true north twist. Add delightful illustrations, and the whole collection is a ton of fun to read.

[Stephanie]

This is such a sweet and fun book!! There are three Canadian Christmss stories in this collection. The illustrations are so pretty. Recommend!