T Is for Turkey: A True Thanksgiving Story

by Tanya Lee Stone (Author) Gerald Kelley (Illustrator)

T Is for Turkey: A True Thanksgiving Story
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Little ones will love learning about Thanksgiving in Tanya Lee Stone's newest shaped alphabet book. Join in as the elementary school puts on a play that tells the true story of the first Thanksgiving. Rhyming couplets that flow through the alphabet help kids celebrate everything from Harvest to Pilgrims to Turkey.
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Publishers Weekly

Putting readers in the audience of a school play, cartoon children enact a rhyming ABC Thanksgiving story, dressed in the clothing of the colonists and Native Americans and set against a backdrop of scenery and stage props. Along the way, the kids aim to set straight certain myths: I is for Indians/ But that name's not quite right./ We're the Wampanoag tribe, / or 'People of the Light.' But on the whole, this is a breezy book about celebrating: Y is for yummy./ We share this great food/ And rejoice all together, / What a wonderful mood! Ages 4-8. (Aug.)

Copyright 2009 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission.

Tanya Lee Stone

TANYA LEE STONE has written several books for young readers, including the young adult novel A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl. She lives in Vermont.

REBECCA GIBBON is the illustrator of several picture books, including Players in Pigtails. She studied illustration at the Royal College of Art, and lives in England.

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780843125702
Lexile Measure
680
Guided Reading Level
14
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Publication date
August 20, 2009
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV035000 - Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
JUV031060 - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts | Theater
JUV017060 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Thanksgiving
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Alphabet
Theater
Thanksgiving Day

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