Hans Christian Andersen's least comfortable Christmas story, about a young fir that spends its whole life wishing it were somewhere else. Finnish illustrator Sanna Annukka gives it a graphic, folk art treatment that turns a cautionary tale into something you want to keep in the open.

Cloth bound in deep forest green with gold foil, no dust jacket, because the binding is the design. It reads in one sitting and looks like an object that cost far more than it did. This is the one you bring to a host who has everything, or keep for the shelf by the tree.