How Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Beth Peck, Clarion Books, New York, NY, 1988
Refugees escape from a Carribean island in a small boat and after a dangerous trip have special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.
The Circle of Thanks: Native American Poems and Songs of Thanksgiving told by Joseph Bruchac, pictures by Murv Jacob, Bridgewater Books, Mahwah, NJ, 1996
Poems with themes of thanksgiving based on the songs and prayers of 14 Native American tribal traditions.
A Pioneer Thanksgiving: A Story of Harvest Celebrations in 1841 by Barbara Greenwood, illustrated by Heather Collins, Kids Can Press Ltd., Niagra Falls, NY
Stories, information and some activities for children centered about Thanksgiving and harvest celebrations in the pioneer era in Canada and the US. The activities include instructions for making cranberry sauce, two games using natural materials, making a "corn dolly" (braided out of plastic lacing instead of straw!) and making a weather vane.
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Allison Jackson, drawings by Judith Byron Schachner, Dutton Children's Books, New York 1997
The familiar rhyme gets a silly Thanksgiving twist with humorous illustrations to match the amended text.
Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen, illustrated by Daniel Mark Duffy, Beech Tree books, Lothrop, Lee & Shephard books, New York, NY, 1998
Molly, a recently arrived Jewish Russian immigrant, is teased by her third grade classmates, but a doll her mother makes to help her with a Thanksgiving classroom project brings her approval from the teacher and classmates.
Thanksgiving Poems selected by Myra Cohn Livingston, illustrated by Steven Gammell, Holiday House, New York, 1985
Sixteen poems on Thanksgiving themes ranging from amusing to serious, including especially commisioned ones by contemporary poets and two based on Native American traditions.
A Strawbeater's Thanksgiving by Irene Smalls, illustrated by Melodye Benson Rosales, Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1998
A story about a slave boy who wrestles a bigger boy for the honor of being the strawbeater at a corn shucking party. (The strawbeater is a musician who stands behind a fiddler and reaches around to beat an accompaniment on the strings like a snare drum while the fiddler plays the tune.) It is based on slave narratives describing shucking parties, which were held in November after the corn harvest.
Minnie and Moo and the Thanksgiving Tree by Denys Cazet, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., New York, NY, 2000
Minnie and Moo start out to just protect the turkeys, Zeke and Zack, from becoming Thanksgiving dinner for the farmer, by hiding them in a tree, but soon there a lot of animals hidden in the old oak tree while the farmer's family eats a Thanksgiving tofu picnic beneath it.
Monkey Sunday: A Story From a Congolese Village by Sanna Stanley, Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1998
A nicely illustrated story based on the author's actual childhood experience of a monkey coming into the church and disrupting the service on the day of Matondo, a Congolese thanksgiving celebration.
Thanksgiving at Our House by Wendy Watson, Clarion Books, New York, NY,1991
How the family prepares for Thanksgiving and then has a joyous celebration with visting relatives, told in a mixture of prose and poetry.
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