For Children

The First Thanksgiving Feast
by Anderson & Ancona
$6.95 (soft cover)
The Pilgrims' first harvest festival in 1621 was a time for playing games as well as feasting.  Here is a fascinating recreation of that famous event.   This is a book that broadens the reader's conceptions of early days in the New World with pictures and an account adapted from history of that rigorous time.

Thanksgiving Day
by Rockwell & Rockwell
$14.95 (hard cover)
For the Thanksgiving play, Charlie is the ship called the Mayflower, Sarah is a Pilgrim, Eveline is Chief Massasoit.  In Mrs. Madoff's class, everyone is thankful for the special things that made the first feast and living in a new home possible.  The spirit of friendship and giving that started with Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people on the first Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in this book.

Turkeys, Pilgrims and Indian Corn
by Barth
$9.95 (soft cover)
Why was Myles Standish called "Captain Shrimp" behind his back?  Who are the Three Sisters of Iroquois lore and what do they have to do with our Thanksgiving celebrations today?  The amazing stories behind our familiar Thanksgiving symbols and the history of the ancient festivals that led up to the first American Thanksgiving remind us of how much we have to be thankful for ... and are revealed in the pages of this entertaining book.
Why was Myles Standish called "Captain Shrimp" behind his back?  Who are the Three Sisters of Iroquois lore and what do they have to do with our Thanksgiving celebrations today?  The amazing stories behind our familiar Thanksgiving symbols and the history of the ancient festivals that led up to the first American Thanksgiving remind us of how much we have to be thankful for ... and are revealed in the pages of this entertaining book.