Thanksgiving+Booklist

NONFICTION
394.2 GRA    Graham-Barber, Lynda. Gobble: the complete bk. of thanksgiving word.

394.2 SPI    Spies, Karen Bornemann. Our national holidays. Examines the history and significance of patriotic holidays, holidays that honor famous people, and special American holidays such as Thanksgiving.

811 PRE     Prelutsky, Jack. It's Thanksgiving. Presents twelve poems about Thanksgiving, including "When Daddy carves the Turkey," "I Ate Too Much," "Daddy's Football Game," and "If Turkeys Thought.".

974.4 AND   Anderson, Joan. The first Thanksgiving feast. Recreates the first harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 using the Pilgrim and Indian actors and the seventeenth-century setting of Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

974.4 OSB    Osborne, Mary Pope. Pilgrims : a nonfiction companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday. Describes the life of the Pilgrims who settled in New Plymouth Colony and the historical events and people involved in the early years of the colony.

974.4 ROQ Roquitte, R.  A day of thanksgiving.

EVERYONE BOOKS
E AND      Anderson, Laurie Halse. Turkey pox. Charity has chicken pox, there's a terrible snowstorm outside, and it looks like the Chatfields will have to spend Thanksgiving without Nana and her wonderful roast turkey, stuffing, and cranberries.

E BOR      Borden, Louise. Thanksgiving is--  Simply describes how the first Thanksgiving came to be celebrated by the Pilgrims, with a brief mention of some of the traditions that are connected to the holiday today.

E JAC      Jackson, Alison. I know an old lady who swallowed a pie. A cumulative rhyme in which an old lady who comes for Thanksgiving swallows her pie before dinner is served, and continues to eat until she has gobbled down the entire feast, pot and all.

E MCM    McMullan, Kate. Fluffy's Thanksgiving. After starring as an ear of corn in his school's Thanksgiving play, the classroom guinea pig enjoys his holiday at Maxwell's home, where he scares Grammy and battles a monster.

E PIL         Pilkey, Dav, 1966-. 'Twas the night before Thanksgiving. School children on a field trip to Mack Nugget's farm save the lives of eight turkeys in this poem based on "The Night Before Christmas.".

E ROC       Rockwell, Anne F.  Thanksgiving Day. Mrs. Madoff's preschool class learns about Thanksgiving and puts on a play about the origins of the holiday.

FIC BRO    Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur's Thanksgiving. Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey.

FIC BUN    Bunting, Eve, 1928-. How many days to America? : a Thanksgiving story. Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.

FIC DAL   Dalgliesh, Alice, 1893-. The Thanksgiving story. A Pilgrim family's struggle to survive in their harsh new homeland culminates in a Thanksgiving feast.

FIC HOB   Hoban, Lillian. Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving dinner. Forgetful Silly Tilly Mole nearly succeeds in ruining her Thanksgiving dinner, but her animal friends come to the rescue with tasty treats.

FIC MAR  Martin, Patricia Stone. I hunt tigers at Thanksgiving. Stevie looks forward to Thanksgiving at Gram's and playing tiger with her cat Sampson, but when he arrives, Sampson is nowhere to be found.Includes instructions for drawing a turkey.

FIC OSB  Osborne, Mary Pope. Thanksgiving on Thursday. Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.

FIC PIN   Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, 1941-. The Hoboken chicken emergency. Arthur goes to pick up the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner but comes back with a 260-pound chicken.

FIC SCH  Schulz, Charles M.  A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,. Charlie Brown does the best he can to give his friends a nice Thanksgiving dinner after Peppermint Patty invites herself and the gang over.

FIC SHA  Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman. One terrific Thanksgiving. Irving Morris Bear who loves to eat learns an important lesson about Thanksgiving from his friends.

FICTION/CHAPTER BOOKS
FIC CLA    Clapp, Patricia. Constance; : a story of early Plymouth. The journal of a young girl tells of her daily life, hardships, romances and marriage during the first years of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth.

FIC DEA    Lasky, Kathryn. A Journey to the New World : The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620.

FIC MYN   Rinaldi. Ann. The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, A Pilgrim Boy, Plymouth, 1620.

FIC OSB    Osborne, Mary Pope. Thanksgiving on Thursday. Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.