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Giving
Thanks For Thanksgiving
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 'Tis
the season! Cut the turkey, pass the stuffing, mash the potatoes, and
pour the gravy: It's Thanksgiving!
With visions
of steaming casseroles and sweet potato pie dancing in our heads, we've
decided to share our enthusiasm with a scrumptious selection of books
concerning this tastiest of holidays. Grab one of the following books
after feasting, and go ahead...rest it on your satisfied but distended
belly. Yum!
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Thanksgiving
on Thursday
By Mary
Pope Osborne
The popular Magic Tree House series continues with this latest fun and educational
adventure! Pint-sized time travelers Annie and Jack are transported back
to the very first Thanksgiving. Inevitably, the children run into some Pilgrims,
who teach them about 17th-century settler life. Recommended for children
ages 4-8. |
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Macy's
On Parade: A Pop-Up Celebration of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
By Pamela
Pease
The always colorful and spectacular Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade has been
a holiday tradition since its inception in 1926. The parade's trademark
giant balloons of popular cartoon and comic strip characters are as much
a part of Thanksgiving as food, relatives, food, and football. And food.
Now, everyone can put on their own Thanksgiving Day parade any time they
want with Pease's elaborate new book, an imaginative pop-up extravaganza
that comes complete with its own bag of confetti. |
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'Twas
the Night Before Thanksgiving
By Dav
Pilkey
In Pilkey's goofy re-telling of the famous poem "'Twas the Night Before
Christmas," a group of schoolchildren take a field trip to a turkey farm,
and attempt to rescue the animals from their inevitable Thanksgiving doom.
Silly prose and even sillier Van Gogh-influenced illustrations highlight
this amusing book. But be warned, your children may never want to eat turkey
again. Bonus recommendation: if you like 'Twas the Night, try Joy
Crowley and Joe Cepeda's charming Gracias,
The Thanksgiving Turkey! |
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Thanksgiving
at the Tappletons'
By Eileen
Spinelli, illustrated by Maryann
Cocca-Leffler
The Tappletons wake up early to start preparing the holiday feast before
all of their relatives arrive, but nothing goes right. The turkey slides
into a pond, the bakery is out of pies -- and that's just the beginning!
It doesn't look like Thanksgiving is going to happen at all, until Grandma
Tappleton reminds everyone what the holiday is really about. A genuinely
funny and warm addition to the growing Thanksgiving oeuvre. |
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Turkeys,
Pilgrims, and Indian Corn: The Story of the Thanksgiving Symbols
By Edna
Barth and Ursula
Arndt
Sure, everyone knows the legend of the first Thanksgiving: Pilgrims and
Native Americans got together to eat a big meal and everything was copasetic,
right? As with just about everything in American history, what really happened
wasn't quite that cut-and-dried. Thankfully (pun ALWAYS intended), Edna
Barth helps to sort out some of the realities behind the myths in Turkeys,
Pilgrims, and Indian Corn, which clearly and thoughtfully explains the
actuality of Thanksgiving and the many traditions associated with it. |
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The
Thanksgiving Table: Recipes and Ideas to Create Your Own Holiday Tradition
By Diane
Morgan, photographs by John
Rizzo
If you're the lucky one stuck with the task of preparing the all-important
Thanksgiving feast -- and are a neophyte to cooking or want to try something
new -- look no further than Diane Morgan's convenient The Thanksgiving
Table. Morgan dispenses down-to-earth advice on all the regular holiday
foods, and also provides lots of mouth-watering recipes that deviate from
the norm, but are still remarkably close to Thanksgiving tradition. |
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