Happy Tuesday everyone!

 

Sorry I missed a week but I have been very busy and just didn't have a chance to get in here.  Hope all of you are doing well and are ready for Thanksgiving with your families.  I have a couple of Thanksgiving books to share with you today.  Hope you and your families will have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.  I am very thankful for my family and each of you my loyal readers.   Hope you will have a chance to post a comment to the blog and I am going to give away a free Christmas book next month.  So please come back and enter to win.

 

 

Thanksgiving

by

Alice K. Flanagan

 

This book is what I would call an elementary history book.  In the book the author shares information about Harvest Festivals, the Pilgrims and the Indians, things you might see on Thanksgiving Day, and how we come to celebrate Thanksgiving Day in the United States.  It is a very good book and appropriate for elementary children.  It would be a good book to help young children learn about the meaning and the reason we celebrate Thanksgiving.

 

 

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Thanksgiving Day

 Time to be Thankful

by Elaine Landau

 

This book is a great information book about Thanksgiving too.  It has really great pictures and bits of information on the sides of the pages.  It also has a really cute craft for the children to make for the Thanksgiving table.  It is Thanksgiving seating cards for the table.  The children us their hand to trace and make turkeys to color to tell people where to sit at the table.  Children would love helping in the celebration this way.  Check out both books at your public library or bookstore.  Enjoy them with a child this holiday.

 

 

See you Friday with a new Christmas book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Saturday my friends.

 

I am sorry i didn't get to post yesterday but since this post should be Friday's I am going to review a Chrstimas book for adults again today.  I hope all the mothers,grandmothers, and anyone else who reads this blog will enjoy it.

 

 

A Cedar Cove Christmas

by

Debbie Macomber

 

The story starts out when Mother-to-be Mary Jo Wyse arrives in Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve looking for the baby's father. The father, David Rhodes had said he would be in town. But of course he isn't.  Which leaves Mary Jo stranded, pregnant, and alone.  There is no room in the local inn. So Grace Harding brings her to her nearby ranch where the animals for the local Christmas pageant are being housed.  When Mary Jo goes into labor that night, a young paramedic comes to the rescue just as Mary Jo's brothers , the three Wyse men show up in town.  The people of Cedar Cove join them in celebrating the birth of Baby Noel.

 

This is a lovely book which resembles the true Christmas story with names and circumstances.  I hear it is going to be a movie on the Hallmark channel this Christmas.  I am looking forward to seeing it this Christmas.  It was a great story.  I hope you will get a chance to check out the movie and the book this Christmas.

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Happy Thursday everyone!

 I hope everyone is having a great day.  Today I am going to review another Thanksgiving book.  I really enjoyed this one too and I had never read it before.  I hope you and your children enjoy it too.

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A Pioneer Thanksgving

by

Barbara Greenwood

 

The story take s place in pioneer times  around 1841.  The Robertson family is preparing for Thanksgiving dinner.  Willy Robertson peels chestnuts for the turkey stuffing, Ma cuts apples for the pies, while Pa and George hunt for the turkey.  Sarah wants to pick cranberries to make cranberry sauce for the dinner and for her grandmother.  So she heads out to the bog to get cranberries and her mother says for her to take her younger sister Lizzie.  So Lizzie and Sarah head out to the bog even though they know they aren't suppose to be there.  Something happens while they are there that gives the family a whole new reason for celebrating Thanksgiving.

 

The book also has directions for pioneer games and recipes and a couple of crafts one being a Corn Dolly which would really be fun for girls to make.  This is a great book for  elementary school age children and maybe even 5th or 6th grade children.  It would be a great book to share and either play one of the games, or make a craft.  A great book to use with a lesson plan and an excellent book to learn about Thanksgiving dinner in the pioneer days.  So check it out at your nearest library or children's book store.  Enjoy!

 

 

See you soon with another great Christmas book on Friday.

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Hi everyone!

It is 11/12/13.  Someone told me in the store today that it

 is a lucky day.  So I hope each of you have had a great day. Well this is the month to give thanks and to celebrate Thanksgiving.  I have a book to share today that would be good for elementary kids to learn all about Thanksgiving.  So I hope you enjoy sharing it with one or two.

 

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Let's Celebrate Thanksgiving

by

Peter and Connie Roop

 

This a great book to share with young kids so that they can learn all about why we celebrate Thanksgiving.  It has great information and cute Thanksgiving jokes all through the book.  The authors share fascinating facts about why we celebrate Thanksgiving and about the First Thanksgiving.  This is a cute book full of great facts and the kids will love the jokes.  It also has a great craft at the end of the book for making a turkey for the table.  So check it out at your nearest library or bookstore.  I hope you will share comments about the book or what you are thankful for  on the comment section of this blog.  I look forward to hearing from you.  Enjoy the book.



 

 

Hello Everyone!

 

It is a beautiful fall day here where I live.  Hope you have had a chance to enjoy some of the beauty of the earth.  Today I am sharing a Christmas book for adults.  I hope you enjoy it.  I thought I would share some good Christmas books as Christmas is just around the corner and I have already been reading some.  I will be back Monday with a special book for a special day.  See you then.

 

 

Christmas Letters

by

Debbie Macomber

 

 

This is a wonderful book about a girl who takes on writing those Christmas letters everyone likes to send about what their family did all through the year.  She is trying to find a job but for extra money she is writing Christmas letters for family and friends.  She is also concerned about her nieces who she fears her sister is following the advise of some doctor's book and her niece's are becoming unable to behave.  Also, she has a neighbor who tells her she read in the cat litter box that KO was going to find romance with someone who lives in their building.  It is a great story and what happens to KO and those around her before Christmas.  Check it out at library or bookstore.  The author has many great books so check them out at the library.  (I have shared some of them on this blog before.) 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoy this book!  Also, read Mrs. Miracle.  Another great Christmas book by Debbie Macomber.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

 

 

I am going to present another cute book that little girls will love.  It is one of the Fancy Nancy books which are always so cute.  This one is about Thanksgiving. So I hope you and your daughter or granddaughter will enjoy this cute book.

 

 

 

Fancy Nancy

Our Thanksgiving Banquet

by

Jane O'Connor and Robin Glasser

 

 

Nancy's grandparents are hosting Thanksgiving this year and all of Nancy's family is attending the Thanksgiving Banquet.  Grandpa and Nancy love talking in French so they greet each other with Bonjour!.  When it is time for dinner Nancy heads for the grown-up table when her mother says that there isn't enough chairs at the grownup table.  Nancy notices that everything is paper at the kid's table. She wanted to sit where everything is fancier.   The cousins start to act silly so Nancy's uncle asks if he could sit there so Nancy moves to the grownup table. Nancy notices that everything is fancier at the grownup table. Then Nancy asks for the gravy and spills some on the fancy tablecloth but her grandmother says she spilled something to and that is what the tablecloth is for. Then Nancy notices that her cousins are coloring so she decides to go help them make turkeys.  The whole family has a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner and the kids make fancy turkeys using their hands.

 

Check it out at your library or bookstore.  It is a really cute book.

 



 

Have you child or grandchild make a turkey from their hand and then decorate it fancy.  ENJOY !!!

 

 

 

Happy Monday Everyone!

 

Hope everyone had a great weekend and was able to enjoy the beautiful fall trees and read a good book.  I have started reading Christmas books.  I will have to share some of them with you as Christmas approaches.  Today I am going to share a favorite book that I loved reading to my Kindergartners and First graders.  It is Corduroy's Thanksgiving by Don Freeman.  This is a classic book and all my students loved every Corduroy book that I read to them and there are quite a few of them out there.  So check Corduroy out at your public library or bookstore.  They are all so good.  Besides I love bears and Corduroy is one of my favorite bears.

 

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Corduroy's Thanksgiving

by

Don Freeman

 

Corduroy is getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner and he has invited all his friends. He gets busy cooking and cleaning before his friends come over.  They go to the parade.  After the parade they have dinner and before they eat each person tells what they are thankful for.  After dinner they run outside to play football and enjoy being together.  Before everyone leaves they have dessert and then say goodbye.  It is a really cute book and you could share other Corduroy books with your little ones as the week goes by.  The first Corduroy is my favorite so you could even start with it.  Enjoy reading Corduroy and have your child get their teddy bear out to hold as you read.  Hope you enjoy the Corduroy books and see you next time with more Thanksgiving books.

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