Tomorrow is November 1st and before you know it, Thanksgiving will be here! This list shares some of our favorite kids books to look at and read this time of year. Be sure to take the list with you to the library or book store next time you go!
Books marked with an * were recommended by readers. Thanks for sharing!! If you have other Thanksgiving book suggestions, please leave them in the comments below and I will get them added!
Thanksgiving Books for Kids:
- Biscuit is Thankful by Alyssa Satin Capucilli*
- Happy Thanksgiving, Biscuit by Alyssa Satin Capucilli*
- If You Sailed On…The Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
- If You Were At…The First Thanksgiving by Anne Kamma
- The Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving by Ann McGovern
- The Story of Thanksgiving by Nancy J. Skarmeas
- T is for Turkey: A True Thanksgiving Story by Tanya Lee Stone
- Thank You by Berryland Books
- The Thanksgiving Door by Debby Atwell
- Thanksgiving is For Giving Thanks! by Margaret Sutherland
- Thanksgiving Is Here! by Diane Goode
- The Ugly Pumpkin by Dave Horowitz*
- This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story by Laura Krauss Melmed
A few of these books are non-fiction and would not make for very high interest “cover-to-cover” reads…unless your child is very into pilgrims or history! However, you can use the pictures and excerpts from the text to engage your child on their level while still interacting with the books and teaching them about Thanksgiving!! For these types of books, you could also just plan to read short passages out of them daily for the month of November to keep your child interested.
Do you have any to add?
See our Fall book list here.
See one of our November traditions: The Tree of Thanks.
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I just found your site yesterday and already you are becoming an invaluable source. I was looking high and low for Thanksgiving books – I found a few of my own – none that I loved – I wanted to find the true history of Thanksgiving about pilgrims and indians – which was difficult to find -I was able to pick up five of your suggestions for our 2 year old. Here are some of the one’s I bought not on your list
– What Is Thanksgiving? by Michelle Medlock Adams
– Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes
– The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing
– The First Thanksgiving: A Lift-the-Flap Book [Board book]by Kathryn Lynn Davis
– Fancy Nancy: Our Thanksgiving Banquet [Paperback]by Jane O’Connor
Thanks so much for the book list. I recently went to the library and found such a poor selection of Thanksgiving titles. It was so disappointing! Now I know what to look for online to build my own holiday library.
My favorite is Cranberry Thanksgiving by Harry and Wende Devlin!
I love There was an old woman who swallowed a pie! book.
My favorite it Cranberry Thanksgiving too!
We LOVE Biscuit is Thankful! So sweet.
Mel at themeaparty.com
We LOVE Biscuit is Thankful! So sweet.
Mel at themeaparty.com
A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting!!!
And Thanksgiving at the Tapleton’s (version with fox family)
over the river: a turkey’s tale is a fun one.
Great list! We’ll definitely be sharing it with our readers
— Sarah at Easyread
I love Thanksgiving Day by Anne Rockwell. It’s great for older preschoolers who want to learn about native americans and pilgrims. Not too much text to wade through and engaging pictures of young children dressed in costumes.
My personal favorite story is A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting. Such a creative and funny story!
How about A Feast for Ten
How about A Feast for Ten
One is a feast for Mouse: A thanksgiving tale by Judy Cox and Jeffrey Ebbeler teaches to be Thankful and not greedy. My kids love the illustrations as well.
We do not celebrate Thanksgiving where I live (Australia) but just love books and love your site.
Love the list! I would love for you to add this and any other of your posts to my weekly Mom’s Library Link-Up.
http://heymommychocolatemilk.blogspot.com/2012/11/co-hosting-moms-library-4-for-me.html
Thanks and Be Blessed,
Julie
This list is being featured in next weeks TT on Learn with Play at home. Thanks for sharing it! x
Twas the night before Thanksgiving is a great one…the kids love it.