A sweet story about Christmas without all the commercialism, and about everyone having something to contribute and about the joys of family time spent together.  When a family is noticing as they decorate their tree that the homemade ornaments are the best, they make a pact that that Christmas they will all make homemade gifts.  The youngest is left in a quandary trying to figure out what he can make.  He keeps brainstorming ideas, but he’s too little to be allowed in the kitchen to cook alone, and it’s the wrong time of year to plant a garden, and the snow bear he makes melts before the big day, and Christmas Eve finds him going to bed sad because he’ll have no gift to offer the next day, but Momma’s comforting words,”the best part of Christmas is spending time together,” finally inspires an idea.  He ends up gathering all the little scraps of paper on which he’d been brainstorming ideas into a decorated jar which he labels, “365 Days of Together To-Dos.”  I think it’s sweet, and it captures the message it’s trying to deliver, and it’s got lots of little details in the illustrations that tie things together into a clean ending.  And I think a lot of kids can relate to feeling like they can’t come up with an idea, plus the book offers so many kid-friendly ideas.