Thanksgiving Books

THE AMAZING TURKEY RESCUE
by Steve Metzger. Clever color illustrations by Jim Paillot. Condition: NEW 2007 Scholastic soft cover (stapled wraps), third printing. Content: Cassie, Wing, and Ollie are back on the farm for another wild Thanksgiving adventure. When a fox is spotted prowling around the henhouse, the turkeys smell trouble. Can they help the chickens fly the coop before it's too late? Ages 4 - 8. [1 copy available]
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ARTHUR'S THANKSGIVING
by Marc Brown. Color illustrations by the author. Condition: UNREAD c. 1989 Trumpet Club soft cover, special edition. Content: Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey. Ages 4 - 8. [1 copy available]
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THE BEST THANKSGIVING EVER!
by Teddy Slater. Color illustrations by Ethan Long. Condition: UNREAD 2005 Scholastic soft cover (stapled wraps), first printing. Content: The Turkeys and their large extended family are preparing for their Thanksgiving meal of - Thanksgiving corn! Ages 4 - 8. [1 copy available]
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A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING
by Charles M. Schulz. Color illustrations. Condition: NEW 2002 Little Brown softcover, first edition, first printing. Content: It's Thanksgiving time! Peppermint Patty invites the gang over for dinner at Charlie Brown's, even though all he can make is cold cereal and toast! With the help of Snoopy and Woodstock, Charlie Brown braves the kitchen -- but can he make a meal everyone will be grateful for? Celebrate with the Peanuts gang as they give thanks in this adaptation of the classic television special. Ages 4 - 8. [1 copy available]
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HOW MANY DAYS TO AMERICA?: A Thanksgiving Story
by Eve Bunting. Color illustrations by Beth Peck. Condition: Very good pre-read Trumpet Club special edition Trade PB. Light edgewear and a book plate stamped on title page. Interior clean. Content: "A Thanksgiving story that knows no season or race, but is for everyone all year 'round." A family flees its native country in a small boat and lands in America on a particularly appropriate holiday. Originally had a audio cassette with it, but this is the BOOK ONLY.
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N.C. WYETH'S PILGRIMS
by Robert San Souci. Color art by N. C. Wyeth. Condition: NEW 1996 Chronicle Books soft cover, fourth printing. Content: Wyeth's 14-panel mural of the early Pilgrim years, done for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building in the early 1940s, has been handsomely reproduced (although never in its entirety) to accompany a spare but aesthetically appealing recitation of the legends of Myles Standish, Squanto, and the anticlimactic "First Thanksgiving." The figures are solidly rendered, as if cut from Plymouth's rocky soil, and wear the expected white collars, flowing capes, bonnets, and high-crowned hats. Readers are offered broad vistas, in keeping with mural design, but also closeups of significant objects like a full-sailed Mayflower or a flirtatious maid at her spinning wheel. The overall visual effect is softly upbeat and romantic. Even winter snow scenes are suffused with a heavenly light that must surely symbolize success. If this visual version of the Pilgrims is much more myth than fact, so what? The endpapers reproduce the Mayflower's passenger list that records the many deaths, remarriages, and births of the early years, ignored in Wyeth's paintings. San Souci's text, mostly unrelated to the pictures, does provide a modicum of information about the reasons for the flight from England and some of the events involved with producing a settlement. These bits of the record can be found in many other histories. What makes this book special is that it is to be experienced as a healthy fairy tale told with artistic potency and a strong sense of the human scale of the history. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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NICKOMMOH!: A THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION
by Jackie French Koller. Nice color illustrations by Marcia Sewall. Condition: UNREAD 2000 Scholastic large soft cover, third printing. However, there is a blank bookplate inside front cover. Content: An introduction to the Narragansett celebration of Nichommoh--a harvest festival that was the inspiration for the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving celebration. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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OVER THE RIVER: A Turkey's Tale
text & color illustrations by Derek Anderson. Based on the song by Lydia Maria Child. Condition: NEW 2006 Scholastic soft cover (stapled wraps), first printing. Content: Over the river Mama, Papa, and Baby Turkey embark for their vegetarian Thanksgiving feast. But when a hungry boy and his dog start sniffing around, the turkeys have got to think fast before the family becomes the main course. "Sheet music" included. Too cute! [1 copy available]
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THE PUMPKINVILLE MYSTERY
by Bruce Cole. Wonderful color illustrations by James Warhola. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1988 Little Simon soft cover, first printing. Name inside frot cover with light edge wear. Content: This story relates how the idea of jack-o-lanterns got started out in the prairies during a time when a mysterious stranger rewarded kind townsfolk and punished greedy politicians. Sounds like the perfect story for an election year! [1 copy available]
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SQUANTO AND THE FIRST THANKSGIVING
by Teresa Celsi. Color illustrations by Pam Ford Johnson. Condition: UNREAD 1995 Raintree/Steck Vaughn (Austin) softcover, ninth printing. Pal shelfwear hinge crase. Content: A simple biography of the Wampanoag Indian who helped the Pilgrims survive in their early days in the Plymouth colony. Early readers. [1 copy available]
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THANKS FOR THANKSGIVING
by Julie Markes. Adorable color illustrations by Doris Barrette. Condition: NEW 2006 Scholastic soft cover, 6th printing. Content: Featuring a simple text, this book reminds both kids and adults about the little things that make each day enjoyable. Includes a page for readers to write their own special thoughts. Full color. K - 3 +. [1 copy available]
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THANKSGIVING IS HERE!
by Diane Goode. Color illustrations by the Author. Condition: NEW 2003 Scholastic soft cover, 4th printing. Content: An appealing account of a family gathering with wonderfully warm illustrations. Grandma and Grandpa prepare for a Thanksgiving celebration and each ring of the doorbell brings a crew of happy, hungry relatives, awaiting their hugs. The pet bird and cat seem eager to join in the fun. After everyone helps with the preparations, Grandma rings the dinner bell and all convene for a memorable holiday. The humorously detailed, pen-and-ink and watercolor, cartoon artwork is exuberant, mischievous, and full of surprises. This Thanksgiving book has something for everyone. K - 3 +. [1 copy available]
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THIS FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY: A Counting Story
by Laura Krauss Melmed. Color illustrations and cover art by Mark Buehner. . Condition: NEW 2002 Scholastic soft cover, 4th printing. Content: Through a simple, rhyming text of 12 short poems, young readers will experience 10 Wampanoag and 10 Pilgrim friends getting ready for the first harvest feast in the New World. This title adds the enjoyment of hidden pictures on each page. There is a turkey to find in each colorful spread and lots of small creatures to count. The feast scene has at least 10 critters, maybe more, frolicking, even making off with food. Lots of smiles and counting practice result in a super read-aloud. K - 3 +. [1 copy available]
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AN OUTLAW THANKSGIVING
by Emily Arnold McCully. Wonderful soft color watercolor illustrations by the Author. Condition: NEW 1998 Puffin soft cover, first printing. Content: Based on a true incident in the 1890s West, when Butch Cassidy and his outlaws threw a lavish Thanksgiving banquet for the ranching community that was their favorite outlaw hideout, McCully imagines it from the point of view of a child who lands up at the party as an unexpected guest. Clara and her uptight mother are on a railway journey from New York State to meet up with Clara's father and make a new life in California when their train is stopped by a huge snowstorm. They accept a fellow passenger's invitation to ride with him on a sled to his "family's" Thanksgiving dinner in Brown's Hole, Utah. When they get there, Clara recognizes that their host is the outlaw from the wanted posters. McCully's exciting watercolor paintings show the adventure of the railroad journey when immigrants and roughnecks were crowded together with elegant travelers. Then there is the wildness of the snowstorm that transforms the prairie and, finally, the boisterous Thanksgiving party, where Clara joins the feast and dances the polka with the famous, charming outlaw. Grades 2 - 5. Actually, adults will like this story, too. [1 copy available]
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OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOOD: A Thanksgiving Poem
by Lydia Maria Child. Beautiful color woodcuts by Christopher Manson illustrate. Condition: NEW c. 2005 North South large soft cover, no printing given. Content: This attractive new presentation of Child's 1844 poem,"A Boy's Thanksgiving Day" (among several early titles) offers full-page woodcuts done in a detailed and delicately primitive style. The colors are pleasingly light and clear. The childlike illustrations are in keeping with the unsophisticated nature of the rhyming text. The text is placed unobtrusively in the sky or on the snow-covered ground, and probably sings better than it reads. A piano arrangement of the familiar melody, a traditional French folk tune, is placed after the text. Child's time-honored poem successfully evokes the happy mood of a traditional and idealized family holiday gathering. Grades 2 - 5. [1 copy available]
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THE THANKSGIVING SURPRISE (AKA Turkey Surprise)
by Peggy ARcher. Color illustrations by Thor Wickstrom. Condition: UNREAD 2007 Scholastic soft cover. Blank book plate inside front cover. Content: Here's a Thanksgiving picture book for vegetarians. Two Pilgrim brothers hunting for a Thanksgiving turkey sing a rhyming chant ("We'll pluck him and stuff him, / and cook him up right"). The cheerful line-and-watercolor pictures show the turkey hiding from the hunters--in a tree, a gopher hole, a pond, and a woodpile. The littlest Pilgrim isn't sure he wants to pluck out the turkey's feathers, stuff the bird with breadcrumbs, and cook it, and he eventually persuades the bigger Pilgrim that there are more delicious things than turkey to bring home for the feast. Hunters and hunted are treated with a light touch, and kids will identify with the turkey as well as with the small Pilgrim, who changes his companion and turns things around. The final spread says it all, showing the family enjoying a delicious feast as the turkey peers through the window. Pre-school - K. [1 copy available]
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