The Berenstain Bears: Christmas Tree

This is an "Emmy Award" winning half hour TV special. This VHS tape of the special was released in 1979, and is my favorite of all the Berenstein videos. It is out of print now, and has not been released on DVD as of the date of this review. In the story, it is Christmas time where the Bear family lives in a hollow tree, in a town of bears. The family wants to decorate a tree, with all their favorite decorations and star. It is time to get a tree before it is too late. Mom wants Poppa to get a tree down at Gus's lot, but Poppa Bear wants to go out and find a tree in the woods and take the little bears with him. Momma does not want them to, since a snow storm is moving in, but the bears trudge up the mountain anyway. They find several "perfect trees", but in each case they find that other animals live in these tree already. Some of the animals are scary and chase the bears away, some are tiny and afraid to lose their home. The bears have to decide what to do about this as the storm is coming soon. Produced in Canada, the character animation is smooth and well done. Voice actors were good. The art designs and backgrounds fit right with the story, and the bear home and town are really cute. I found that the music is well done, and fits the period the film was released. Overall a very nice addition to our own holiday show collection - a feel good story for all ages. It is a bit hard to find now, but I highly recommend a copy. I bought mine used from a third party seller here at Amazon.com and am very happy with it.

One of my favorite Christmas Movies. Good quality for when movie was created.

Great to watch with the kiddos during the holiday

This came in perfect condition and it plays great!! I ordered the same thing from another seller, years ago...it never came at all so, KUDOS to this seller!!

The Berenstain Bears: Christmas Tree is a GREAT video. The reason we picked it up is because we ran across the book and read it and loved it. The story seemed to be very similar to the Berenstain Bears Easter Surprise which we have on DVD. The Easter Surprise is one of our families ALL TIME favorite holiday videos so we were hoping the Christmas Tree one would be the same. IT IS!! and it follows the book perfectly and the style of the video is similar to the Easter Suprise. Now we have another holiday favorite! The voices of the bears are as I remember as a child--LOVED IT. However, on the DVD there are a couple other stories included...GREAT BONUS!!, but they are newer stories so they have little different voices on the characters. Not a big deal, but some people get weird about that...just don't watch that part if your looking for the old stuff. Otherwise, ENJOY...you get more stories for your buck!

Arrived quickly. Packaged well. VHS plays perfect. Appreciate sellers quality service as well as quality product

Really cute and you can always trust that they are appropriate for young viewers. I read these books to my kids for years and have many fond memories. The videos are wonderful in their simplicity with loveable characters.

Another good collection of lessons to learn on the pathway to life.

It was just as expected, I love to dress up like a grizzly bear and watch this during the holidays. Pretending to be a Berenstain bear myself while buzzed on rum and eggnog!

REminds her of her childhood!

I Love watching the Berenstain bears Christmas tree when I was a kid. It made me happy to watch it again

My grandaughters cand't wait to see these dvd's everytime they visit. Great investment.

My granddaughter loved it. "16 more words required" Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. My first four words said all I needed to say.