Thanksgiving Children's Books

When calamity stalks every step of the preparations for the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner, they realize that there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.

Introduces the holiday of Thanksgiving and some of the ways in which it is celebrated, explaining the origin and meaning behind such symbols as the turkey.

Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, visit Plymouth Plantation to see how the Pilgrims lived and to celebrate a big feast with the Pilgrims and Native Americans.

This story, set on a New Hampshire farm in the nineteenth century, shows the hectic Thanksgiving preparations of four young sisters who must take charge of Thanksgiving dinner when their parents are called away. Includes menu and several recipes.

When Franklin and his parents learn that his grandparents will not be joining them at Thanksgiving, everyone in the family invites someone else to share the holiday with them.

Presents twelve poems about Thanksgiving, including "When Daddy carves the Turkey, " "I Ate Too Much, " "Daddy's Football Game, " and "If Turkeys Thought."

Clifford's Thanksgiving Visit brings readers along as Clifford travels to the city to spend the holiday with his mom. Can Clifford find her apartment in time for Thanksgiving dinner? --

It's another Thanksgiving at Grandma's. Gavin expects a long day of boredom and being pestered by distantly related toddlers, but his cousin Rhonda has a different idea: make a break for it - out of the kids' room to the swing set in the backyard! Gavin isn't so sure, especially when they encounter vicious guard dogs (in homemade sweaters), a hallway full of overly affectionate aunts, and worse yet, the great wall of butts! Will they manage to avoid...

Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast.