The Thanksgiving Story (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Dalgliesh, Alice

ISBN 10: 0808574590 ISBN 13: 9780808574590

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 1985

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A Pilgrim family's struggle to survive in their harsh new homeland culminates in a Thanksgiving feast.

About this title

About the Author

Alice Dagliesh wrote many books for young readers, including The Thanksgiving Story, The Fourth of July Story, the Bears on Hemlock Mountain, and The Little Wooden Farmer, all available from Aladdin.

From Publishers Weekly

Dagliesh and Sewell received praise for the clarity and immediacy of their picture book, a hit of the season in 1954. Today's children, beginners and advanced readers, will value the story about one family's first Thanksgiving in the Plymouth Colony, strikingly present in stylized, naive pictures like colored etchings. Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are aboard the Mayflower, overcrowded when the Speedwell turns back to England. On the journey, the children's baby brother is born and named Oceanus; he will be one of the smallest in the company of settlers who endure the terrible first year in the New World and gather to celebrate the harvest the next November. The story ends with the great feast to which the colonists invited the Indian chief Massasoit, Squanto and their people who had helped the strangers survive hunger, cold and sickness.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0808574590
• ISBN 13: 9780808574590
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Illustrator: Sewell Helen
• Number of pages: 32