Three Little Nutcrackers

Every year my crazy family

Hides inside the Christmas tree

One warty little pickle

Made of plastic, colored green.

And on every Christmas morning

They hold a competition

To find that hidden pickle;

It's their holiday tradition ...

Full of wit and rhyme, goofiness and good cheer, this collection of merry, madcap poems by Paul McDowell will have the whole family chuckling and-just like the majestic Christmas pickle-will quickly become a silly, dilly holiday tradition.