The Sugar Plum Tree

My father bought me so many wonderful children's books when I was growing up, and they still provide inspiration today. One such book was a collection of bedtime stories The Sleepy Time Treasury (1975). The collection included the Eugene Field poem, The Sugar Plum Tree, written in the late 1800s. I illustrated this scene from the following passage:

You say but the word to that gingerbread dog
And he barks with such terrible zest
That the chocolate cat is at once all agog,
As her swelling proportions attest.
And the chocolate cat goes cavorting around
From this leafy limb unto that,
And the sugar-plums tumble, of course, to the ground -
Hurrah for that chocolate cat!