Thanksgiving Booklist

Picture Books

Cowley, Joy. 1998. Gracias, the Thanksgiving Turkey. Scholastic.

Dalgliesh, Alice. 1954. The Thanksgiving Story. Aladdin Paperbacks.

Grace, Catherine O'Neill, and Margaret M. Bruchac with Plimoth Plantation. 2001. 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving. National Geographic.

Kamma, Anne. 2001. If You Were at the First Thanksgiving. Scholastic.

Koller, Jackie French. 1999. NICKOMMOH! A Thanksgiving Celebration. Atheneum.

Jackson, Alison. 1997. I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. Dutton.

Lee, Quinlan B. 2002. Tricky Turkey Tongue Twisters. HarperFestival.

McGovern, Ann. 1993. If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. Scholastic.

Peck, Beth. 1990. How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story. Clarion.

Rael, Elsa Okon. 2001. Rivka's First Thanksgiving. Margaret K. McElderry Books.

Roberts, Bethany. 2001. Thanksgiving Mice! Clarion.

Sewall, Marcia. 1987. The Pilgrims of Plimouth. Atheneum.

Spinelli, Eileen. 1982. Thanksgiving at the Tappletons'. HarperTrophy.

Spinelli, Eileen. 2003. The Perfect Thanksgiving. Henry Holt and Company.

Waters, Kate, and Russ Kendall. 1996. Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times. Scholastic.

Early Chapter Books

Barth, Edna. 1975. Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn: The Story of Thanksgiving Symbols. Clarion Books.

Cazet, Denys. 2000. Minnie and Moo and the Thanksgiving Tree. DK Publishing.

Davis, Kenneth C. 2002. Don't Know Much About the Pilgrims. HarperCollins.

DeGroat, Diane. 2001. Annie Pitts, Burger Kid. SeaStar Books.

Osborne, Mary Pope. 2002. Thanksgiving on Thursday. (Magic Tree House, 27). Random House.

Middle and High School

Bowden, Susan. 2001. Bitter Harvest. Signet.

Bradford, William. 1981. Of Plymouth Plantation 1620–1647. McGraw-Hill.

Capote, Truman. 1996. A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & the Thanksgiving Visitor. Modern Library.

Deetz, James and Patricia. 2001. The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony. Anchor.

Heimert, Alan. 1985. The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology. Harvard UP.

Stratton, Eugene Aubrey. 1997. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People. Ancestry Publishing.

Winslow, Edward. 1996. Good Newes from New England. Applewood Books.