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Gobble Up Reading
Silly Thanksgiving Stories
By Angie Boss
"If turkeys thought, they'd run away a week before Thanksgiving Day, but turkeys can't anticipate, and so there's turkey on my plate." – From It's Thanksgiving by Jack Prelutsky. |
Thanksgiving is almost upon us, and like most reading families, we try to find good, solid books that focus on the importance of major holidays. Well, I can only read so many Indian and Pilgrim feast books before my eyes start to glaze over, and we need something a little more raucous.
Engaging poetry for the preschool set can be difficult to find, but Jack Prelutsky is an old pro. His book, It's Thanksgiving, is his 30th book of prose and one of his best. While the requisite Pilgrim and Indian feast poem is in there, there are also poems about Dad's attempts to carve the turkey as well as a leftover lament. But most of all, it is a book that celebrates families and their traditions.
A good book to read the night before Thanksgiving is Dav Pilkey's 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving