All About Thanksgiving Day...

It is once again time to celebrate that American autumn holiday known as Thanksgiving Day! For some it will be a day of visiting with family and friends. Others will enjoy a bountiful table of delicious foods and a nap afterwards. Some will watch a parade and a football game. Most will do all of the above!

Below is a list of books/DVDs/audio Cd's all about celebrating Thanksgiving:

BOOKS
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting
Thanksgiving (Rookie Read-About Holidays) by David. F. Marx
Let's Get Ready for Thanksgiving (Welcome Books: Celebrations) by Joanne Winne
Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House #27) by Mary Pope Osborne
Thanksgiving Day at Our House: Thanksgiving Poems for the Very Young by Nancy White Carlstrom
Thanksgiving Day by Anne Rockwell
The First Thanksgiving: A Counting Story by Laura Krauss Melmed
Rivka's First Thanksgiving by Elsa Okon Rael
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey
Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland
Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Green
Thanksgiving Day by Gail Gibbons
My First Thanksgiving by Tomie dePaola
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxes and Shannon Stimweis
A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
Thanksgiving Is... by Gail Gibbons
Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving by Ann McGovern
Samuel Eaton's Day by Kate Waters
Sarah Morton's Day by Kate Waters
If You Were at the First Thanksgiving by Anne Kamma
One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims by B.G. Hennessy
Indian Two Feet and His Horse by Margaret Friskey
The Pilgrims and Me by Judy Donnelly
Corn is Maize by Aliki
10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnson

DVDs
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Inside Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Garfield: Holiday Collection (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas)

Audio Cd's
Thanksgiving: A Windham Hill Collection (various artists)

This week I will be in Britt on Tuesday with Mrs. Jass's kindergartners where they will listen to the book How Many Seeds in A Pumpkin? written by Margaret McNamara and illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Mrs. Tangeman's 2nd graders will watch the DVD, A Magical Journey Through the Library.
Next week I will meet with Mrs. Zuehl's 3rd graders on Tuesday and be at the WHMS in Kanawha on Thursday.

Thanksgiving Day is really a special day to count our blessings and all that we treasure. It's a day to "stop and smell the roses" so to speak.

Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Mrs. T. Reiter, K-12 Teacher Librarian