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A selection of picture books for the Thanksgiving season, highlighting celebrations of all kinds.
Updated October 2, 2022
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Over the River and Through the Wood
Lydia Maria Child
Paper Book
For nearly 150 years the words of Lydia Maria Child's Thanksgiving poem has been an essential part of the traditional Thanksgiving celebration. This famous poem has now been enhanced with full-color scenes of old rural New England.
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Cranberry Thanksgiving
Wende Devlin
Paper Book
Grandmother almost loses her secret recipe for Cranberry bread to one of her Thanksgiving dinner guests
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Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
Melissa Sweet
Paper Book
From Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet comes the perfect Thanksgiving Day picture book. Let's have a parade! Meet the master puppeteer who invented the first balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Melissa Sweet brings to life the inspirational story of the puppeteer who...
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Thanksgiving Treat
Catherine Stock
Paper Book
Join one special family as they get together to create some tasty Thanksgiving treats in this charming holiday story. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, everyone is very busy. Grandma is stuffing the turkey. Dad is chopping firewood. The cousins are shucking corn. But the...
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Turkey Trouble
Wendi Silvano
Paper Book
Turkey is in trouble. Bad trouble. The kind of trouble where it's almost Thanksgiving...and you're the main course. But Turkey has an idea--what if he doesn't look like a turkey? What if he looks like another animal instead? After many hilarious attempts, Turkey comes up with the...
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Thanksgiving in the Woods
Phyllis Alsdurf
Paper Book
A true holiday classic, this cozy autumn story invites readers to join in an outdoor Thanksgiving feast, full of cheer and generosity of spirit Every year a family and their friends gather in the woods to celebrate Thanksgiving among the trees. Everyone brings something to share and the...
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Thanksgiving at the Tappletons'
Eileen Spinelli
Paper Book
You're invited! Join the Tappletons, the nicest bunch of wolves ever, for a very special Thanksgiving meal. Everyone has a job to do. Mrs. Tappleton is making the turkey. Mr. Tappleton is buying the pies. Kenny is in charge of the salad. Jenny is mashing the potatoes. It seems like...
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Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving
Joseph Bruchac
Paper Book
An American tradition for almost four hundred years, the Thanksgiving celebration would not have been possible without one man -- Squanto In 1620 an English ship called the Mayflower landed on the shores inhabited by the Pokanoket people, and it was Squanto who welcomed the newcomers and taught...
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Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story
Pat Zietlow Miller
Paper Book
Celebrate food and family with this heartwarming Thanksgiving picture book. We will share the risen bread. / Our made-with-love Thanksgiving spread. / Grateful to be warm and fed. / We will share the bread. In this spirited ode to the holiday, set at the turn of the twentieth century, a large...
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An Outlaw Thanksgiving
Emily Arnold McCully
Paper Book
Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully's delightful new story is based on a real Thanksgiving banquet given in Brown's Hole, Utah, in the 1890's by Butch Cassidy and his gang. In November 1896, Clara Maher and her mother are traveling by train across the United States when snow blocks the tracks in...
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Fangsgiving
Ethan Long
Paper Book
Geisel Award-winning author and illustrator Ethan Long turns his attention to the day of thanks with a story that's to die for. It's the fourth Thursday of November, and the members of Fright Club are cooking up something spooky . . . a Thanksgiving feast! But...
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’Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving
Dav Pilkey
Paper Book
From Dav Pilkey, creator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes a tall tale of tall-tailed toms!School children on a field trip to Mack Nugget's farm save the lives of eight turkeys in this poem based on "The Night Before Christmas."
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