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Nov. 2, 2006
Thanksgiving/Autumn Books, Movies, Cd's and Websites

Posted in Book List

I would eventually like to have a list of books for all the major holidays.  If you know of any other books, please feel free to add them in the comments and I will add it to my list!  The * tells me our library has it.  Look for more lists as we near other holidays!  If it has a +, it is in our personal library.  If you use this list to pick out books for your children, please preview it first as I have not seen or read most of these books.  If it is in bold print, I have read it and recommend it!

 

Books:

1621 A New Look at Thankgiving (A Nat'l Geographic Book)*

...If you sailed on the Mayflower by Ann McGovern*+

...If you sailed on teh Mayflower in 1620, Ann McGovern+

A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mourt's Relation, authored by four of the Pilgrim men

A Thanksgiving Wish by Michael J. Rosen

A Pioneer Thanksgiving by Barbara Greenwood *

A Time to Keep by Tasha Tudor*

A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting*

Across the Wide Dark Sea by Jean Van Leeuwen*

Amy's Gooseby Efner Tudor Holmes/illustrated by Tasha Tudor*

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving  by Louise May Alcott*

An Outlaw Thanksgiving by McCully, Emily Arnold*

Biscuit's Thanksgiving

Colonial Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in the New World by Laurie Carlson*

Cranberries, by William Jaspersohn, is about the growth & harvesting of this little berry*

Cranberry Thanksgiving*+

Eating The Plates : A Pilgrim Book Of Food And Manners by Lucille Recht Penner*

Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Jake Swamp*

Goody O’Grumpity by Carol Ryrie Brink*

Happy Thanksgiving! Things To Make And Do to create our yogurt tepees and Mayflower*

Honkers by Jane Yolen *

How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting* cassette*

How to draw Thanksgiving symbols  by Webster, Christine

If You Were at the First Thanksgiving

In November by Cynthia Rylant*

Jamestown: New World Adventure by by James E. Knight*

Let's Celebrate Thanksgiving by Peter and Connie Roop*

Magic Treehouse Thanksgiving on Thursday

Meet the Pilgrim Fathers by Elizabeth Payne

Meet the Real Pilgrims: Everyday life on Plimoth Plantation by Robert Loeb*

Merrily Comes Our Harvest In - Poems for Thanksgiving selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Miracle in a Shoebox

Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen (small chapter book)*video cassette*

My Book of Thanks, BG Hennessy+

My First Thanksgiving by Tomie dePaola

My Thankful Heart by Mary Pino

My Very Own Thanksgiving*

N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims by Robert San Souci*

Of Plymouth Plantation: William Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement 1608-1650 from Vision Forum

Off to Plymouth Rock by Dandi Mackall

Oh, What a Thanksgiving by Steven Kroll*
On the Mayflower by Kate Waters*

One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey...enjoy clam chowder and cranberry juice*+

Over the River and Through the Wood by Lydia maria Child, illustrator Brinton Turkle*

P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet by Carol Crane*

Pilgrim Children of the Mayflower by Ida DeLage

Pilgrim Courage by William Bradford*

Pilgrim Kate by Helen Fern Daringer*

Pilgrim Neighbors: More True Pilgrim Stories by Elvajean Hall*

Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey/revised and expanded by Elvajean Hall*

Round the Turkey: A Grateful Thanksgiving, Leslie Kimmelman (poems)

Sameul Eaton's Day by Kate Waters

Sarah Morton's Day by Kate Waters*

Sign of the Beaver+

Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxas

Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrim by Clyde Robert Bulla (chapter book)*

Stories of the Pilgrims, published by Christian Liberty+

Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626 by Gary Bowen *

Sweet Land of Liberty by Charles Coffin

Tapenum's Day by Kate Waters

Tattered Sails, Verla Kay

Thank you, Sarah: The Woman who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson

Thanks & Giving : All Year Long by Marlo Thomas

Thanks A Million, Nikki Grimes (poems)

Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes*

Thanksgiving: A Harvest Celebration by Julie Stiegemeyer

Thanksgiving: A Time to Remember by Barbara Rainey*

Thanksgiving is For Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland

Thanksgiving is for What We Have by Bettina Peterson*

Thanksgiving with Me by Margaret Willey*

The First Thanksgiving by Jean Craighead George* and on cassette*

The First Thanksgiving by Linda Haywood (Step Into Reading book, step 2)*

The First Thanksgiving Feast by Joan Anderson *

The Light and The Glory for Kids by Peter Marshall and David Manuel

The Night Before Thanksgiving*

The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving by Ann McGovern

The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall* video cassette*

The Story of Liberty by Charles Coffin

The Story of the Pilgrims by Katharine Ross *

The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh *

The Thanksgiving Wish

The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Greene*

Those Billington Boys by Janice Glover
Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness*
Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn : The Story of the Thanksgiving Symbols by Edna Barth*

Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz*

 
Tape or CD:
Pilgrims vs. Indians from Vision Forum
Squanto from Focus on the Family Radio Theatre+

Adventures in Odyssey: Thank you God (Focus on the Family)+

 
Movies: (Thank you Elysa from FIAR for the last 3 movies!)
The Secret*
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving*
The Mayflower Voyagers (Peanuts)
A Mouse on the Mayflower
The Waltons: Season 2 (2 part episode)
 
 
Music:
Thanksgiving: A Windham Hill Collection *
 
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Nov. 1, 2006 - Phew!

Posted by Christy


FINALLY!

I KNEW I had saw this wonderful list of yours the other day when I clicked on 'Friends' and read all my friends latest entries, but for the life of me I couldn't remember who had posted this. I have spent all morning clicking on each friends blogs individually trying to find it.

Now that I have found it, if it's ok with you, I would like to blog a short entry and link back to this entry of yours so others can also find it (and so I don't have to go looking for it again...LOL).

Thank you for all your hard work putting this list together. If you have similar lists for other holidays I would love to see those also!


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Nov. 2, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by eyecorn


Oh, my! This list is perfect for DD6's Thanksgiving unit!! I'm glad we've met..thank you for adding me to your friends list.


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Nov. 2, 2006 - I didn't see this one...

Posted by eyecorn


I might be a bit blurry eyed right now...do you have Tattered Sails by Verla Kay on your list? It's a good selection...pretty water colors. Done in a verse format, few words (like this post) but very descriptive.


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