Author-illustrator P. K. Hallinan's picture book about Thanksgiving, now available in paperback. Thanksgiving Day brings a flurry of activity to little P.K.'s house. His family and friends gather to watch parades, play football, and eat dinner -- such fun that P.K. declares: 'I'm grateful for blessings that just never end, but mostly I'm thankful. . . for family and friends.' From helping prepare the meal to counting blessings, children will identify with the familiar aspects of the holiday. The bright, colorful illustrations and heartwarming text combine to make this book, now available in paperback, a must-read for the Thanksgiving season. Ages 3-7.

Enjoy this illustrated story of the first Thanksgiving….and then learn to draw it yourself!

Introduces the history and traditions of the Thanksgiving holiday, including the original fall harvest celebration, how it became an official U.S. holiday, and how people celebrate it today.

The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories is a collection of the most beloved and touching tales of Thanksgiving: The Kingdom of the Greedy by P. J. Stahl Thankful by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving Mascot by Sheldon C. Stoddard Mistress Esteem Elliott's Molasses Cake by Kate Upson Clark The First Thanksgiving by Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum by Winthrop Packard How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown by Harriet Beecher Stowe Wishbone Valley by R. K. Munkittrick Patem's Salmagundi by E. S. Brooks Miss November's Dinner Party by Agnes Carr The Visit by Maud Lindsay The Story of Ruth and Naomi adapted from the Bible Bert's Thanksgiving A Thanksgiving Story by Miss L. B. Pingree John Inglefield's Thanksgiving by Nathaniel Hawthorne How Obadiah Brought About a Thanksgiving by Emily Hewitt Leland The White Turkey's Wing by Sophie Swett The Thanksgiving Goose by Fannie Wilder Brown An English Dinner of Thanksgiving by George Eliot A Novel Postman by Alice Wheildon Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West by Eugene Field Chip's Thanksgiving by Annie Hamilton Donnell The Master of the Harvest by Mrs. Alfred Gatty A Thanksgiving Dinner by Edna Payson Brett Two Old Boys by Pauline Shackleford Colyar A Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away by Hezekiah Butterworth Mon-daw-min by H. R. Schoolcraft A Mystery in the Kitchen by Olive Thorne Miller Who Ate the Dolly's Dinner? by Isabel Gordon Curtis An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving by Rose Terry Cooke 1800 and Froze to Death by C. A. Stephens

A story of harvest celebrations in 1841.