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Mousekin's Thanksgiving |
I love this book's accurate and pretty pencil and watercolor drawings of animals living through the winter in the snow. The main character, a little wood mouse,
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10 Fat Turkeys |
This is a very silly book about turkeys doing silly things, but it also happens to be a counting book and is told in good rhyme and rhythym. We think it's fun.
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Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving Dinner (I Can Read Book 1) |
Silly Tilly is a forgetful mole lady who has the best of intentions to invite her friends over for Thanksgiving Dinner, but keeps forgetting key things, like in
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Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' (A Trumpet Club Special Edition) |
A variety of mishaps afflict the Tappletons as they try to cook their Thanksgiving dinner, but when the extended family arrives and the disasters are found out,
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This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story |
This book tells about the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe through rhyming and counting descriptions of the children belonging to each group, culminating in the
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Three Young Pilgrims |
Although in the preface the author notes that this book is not a scholarly work, but rather "an illustrated primer," I think it's very educational to learn in t
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (Picture Puffins) |
A play on "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly," this book is the silly adventure of an old lady who swallows an entire Thanksgiving dinner, much to the surp
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Goody O'Grumpity |
In this book, the illustrator set a familiar poem in a Pilgrim context, and depicts Pilgrim children following after Goody O'Grumpity as she makes a spice cake.
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This Is the Turkey |
This rhyming story tells of Max and his family assembling a delicious Thanksgiving dinner for their family and friends (except the turkey winds up in the fish t
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Over the River and Through the Woods |
The familiar lyrics of "Over the River and Through the Wood" are illustrated riotously in this fun book. I always thought the song was about Christmas, but this
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In November |
I love the beautiful oil painting illustrations in this book: every time we read it I want to get my oil paints out and pretend I know what I'm doing. Sadly, yo
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Leaf Man (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) |
Although it's not about Thanksgiving really, Leaf Man is about fall leaves and the narrating child's imagination of a man made out of leaves and acorns and what
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Ox-Cart Man -(Book & Audio CD) |
Here is another book not about Thanksgiving, but sort of autumn-related. It's one of our all-time favorite books so worth a mention. The story is about a family
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A Plump and Perky Turkey |
What happens when a town is outsmarted by all the turkeys before Thanksgiving? Why they are reduced to eating shredded wheat for Thanksgiving dinner, of course!
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Thanksgiving Mice! |
In this book, a group of mice acts out a play about the mice who came over on the Mayflower. I'm sure the real Pilgrims would have disputed the cuteness of the
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The Very First Thanksgiving Day |
Another nicely illustrated story of the first Thanksgiving through the eyes of the Pilgrim and Native American children, "The Very First Thanksgiving Day" is to
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Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners |
We are using "Eating the Plates" as our read aloud book, and haven't finished it yet, but so far I find it's quite interesting and has manageably short chapters
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Thanksgiving Is Here! |
Diane Goode illustrated other books we love, like "Alligator Boy" and "When I Was Young In the Mountains," so we were not surprised to also enjoy the detail and
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