Trouble ensues when Papa gets Miguel a turkey to fatten up for Thanksgiving, and Miguel develops an attachment to it. When Tuyet finds out that her Vietnamese family is having duck rather than turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, she is upset until she finds out that other children in her class did not eat turkey either. Grandmother almost loses her secret recipe for cranberry bread to one of the guests she and Maggie invite for Thanksgiving dinner. Eventually, the family has enough ingredients to make something special… a delicious apple cake! Since this book involves the autumn tradition of apple picking and gathering with family and friends, it is an excellent addition to Thanksgiving reads.

In this simple rhyming story, a child says thank you for the gifts nature provides, from hazelnuts in the hedge to apples from the tree, eggs from the hens to milk from the cow. Enjoy these 10 picture book recommendations about the most stressful dinner of the year.

For this year’s Thanksgiving list, we focus on the dynamic of the family get-together. Thanksgiving picture book lists typically include a mixture of books about the first Thanksgiving, turkeys trying to escape becoming dinner, and dinner mishaps.

Thank you thanksgiving by david milgrim