The Memory Tree recounts some actual events fromChristmas 2007. The storyline, told in first person throughthe eyes of a toddler, features young Calvin, who delights inriding in Dad's pickup truck to Big Jim's Farm in search of twotrees, a tall one for the house and a short one to be plantedin the back yard, called a memory tree. As a toddler, he isquite the humorous helper, and together, Calvin and Dadtransform this Christmas, because of a memory tree, into a tradition they will recapture for years to come.