Count Your Blessings!

It is once again time to celebrate that beautiful American, autumn holiday known as Thanksgiving Day! For some it will be a day filled with family and friends. Other a bountiful table of delicious foods and a nap afterwards. Some will enjoy watching a parade and/or a football game. For others it might be all of the above!!

Below is a list of books/DVDs/audio Cd's all about celebrating Thanksgiving Day:

Books:
Samuel Eaton's Day by Kate Waters
Sarah Morton's Day by Kate Waters
If You Were at the First Thanksgiving by Anne Kamma
One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims by B.G. Hennessy
Indian Two Feet and His Horse by Margaret Frisky
The Pilgrims and Me by Judy Donnelly
Corn is Maize by Aliki
The First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story by Laura Krauss Melmed
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxes and Shannon Stimweis
The Very First Thanksgiving Day written by Rhonda Gowler Green
Thanksgiving Day by Gail Gibbons
My First Thanksgiving by Tomie dePaola
10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnson
A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving by Ann McGovern
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting
Thanksgiving (Rookie Read-About Holidays) by David F. Marx
Let's Get Ready for Thanksgiving (Welcome Books: Celebrations) by Joanne Winne
Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House #27) by Mary Pope Osborne
Thanksgiving Day at Our House: Thanksgiving Poems for the Very Young by Nancy White Carlstrom
Thanksgiving Day by Anne Rockwell
Rivka's First Thanksgiving by Elsa Okon Rael
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey
Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland
Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac

DVDs
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Inside Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Garfield: Holiday Celebrations (Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas)

Audio Cd's
Thanksgiving: A Windham Hill Collection (Various Artists)

I'm sure there is more media on the market and in library collections. If there is something that you've read and would like to suggest, let me know!

Really, Thanksgiving Day is the day we truly give thanks for all that we have. I hope that your holiday is a pleasant one full of many blessings!

Mrs. T Reiter, K-12 Teacher Librarian