Thanksgiving Theme Books For Kids

Celebrate Thanksgiving and the Fall season with these titles available at the Sussex County Library System.

Updated October 6, 2025
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Thankful for family /
Berenstain, Stan,
Paper Book
Celebrate Thanksgiving and family with this festive Berenstain Bears board book! The Berenstain Bears are thankful for many things around Thanksgiving, like the changing seasons and falling leaves. However, they are most thankful for the joy of family! Children ages 0 to 3 will...
Frog and friends :
Bunting, Eve,
Ebook
"Frog and friends are a delightful group--entertaining, charming, and funny. Just the sort of friends anyone is glad to have." - Kirkus Reviews In Book 8 of this engaging beginning reader series from acclaimed children's writer Eve Bunting, when Frog and his Friends are joined...
Harvest days :
DePalma, Kate
Paper Book
"An enticing look at harvest rituals, foods, and festivities" - Kirkus Reviews People as far back as anyone's known have gathered to give thanks for food we have grown. Celebrate harvest festivals from 12 cultures around the globe! Immerse young readers in some...
Cranberry Thanksgiving
Devlin, Wende.
Paper Book
Today was Thanksgiving, Grandmother's favorite day of the year. The cooking was done and her famous cranberry bread was cooling on the wooden board. Every year Grandmother invited a guest for dinner and allowed Maggie to do the same. "Ask someone poor or lonely," she always said. She wasn...
Celebrate Thanksgiving
Heiligman, Deborah.
Paper Book
Thanksgiving is the original American holiday. When the Pilgrims sat down to give thanks for the hard-won bounty of their new world, they continued a Native American tradition that would become a focal point in the calendar of all generations of Americans to come. The author relates...
Fall Is for Beginnings
Larocca, Rajani/ Alwar, Abhi (ILT)
From Newbery Honor author Rajani LaRocca and critically acclaimed illustrator Abhi Alwar, an authentic celebration of friendship and finding your place in this back-to-school picture book and follow up to Summer Is for Cousins Ravi can't wait for the start of the new school year!...
Squash & Pumpkin :
Mcqueen, G. G./ Slack, Michael (ILT)
Paper Book
It's a pumpkin spice showdown! Acorn Squash wants her fair share of the seasonal spotlight in this hilarious "odd couple" picture book with plenty of fall flair. "This fall-themed story of friendship is bursting with puns and -adorable, big-eyed vegetables."-School Library...
If you lived during the Plimoth Thanksgiving /
Newell, Chris,
Paper Book
What do you know about the thanksgiving feast at Plimoth? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events...
How to catch a turkey /
Wallace, Adam
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller! From the bestselling How to Catch series comes a festive turkey tale! A turkey is running loose in a school right before a Thanksgiving play. Can YOU help catch it? Follow along as students turn their school upside down trying to catch the turkey, ending...
How to catch a turkey
Wallace, Adam,
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller! From the bestselling How to Catch series comes a festive turkey tale! A turkey is running loose in a school right before a Thanksgiving play. Can YOU help catch it? Follow along as students turn their school upside down trying to catch the turkey, ending...

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