var amzn_wdgt={"cols":1,"tag":"cathewheel-20","width":"160","inner_bkgd_color":"#DDDD99","serviceVersion":"20070822","head_text_color":"#eae493","marketPlace":"US","show_image":true,"rows":3,"price_color":"#3f3c39","templateId":"8001","title":"Thanksgiving Books for Children","curve_corners":true,"items":[{"asin":"0671668595","comment":["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,"]},{"asin":"0439459486","comment":["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."]},{"asin":"0064441547","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"B000UXDL08","comment":["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,"]},{"asin":"0060541849","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"0689802080","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"0140565957","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"1558586148","comment":["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."]},{"asin":"0807578894","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"0805063110","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"0152063420","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"0152053042","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"1591127971","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"1890817910","comment":["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!"]},{"asin":"0618604863","comment":["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 "]},{"asin":"1416919163","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"0689815417","comment":["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"]},{"asin":"0060515902","comment":["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"]}],"outer_bkgd_color":"#668844","show_review":false,"displayTemplate":"6","sort_order":"Random","show_price":true,"text_color":"#31658b"} amzn_wdgt.ID = "V20070822/US/cathewheel-20/8001/32216309-7a1e-4a34-85a8-33a312e16c0b"; document.write('');