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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Books About Thanksgiving

How to Tell the Difference (analyzing books about Native Americans for bias)

To use when presenting multiple perspectives and doing critical analysis. I DO NOT agree that all of these are respectful or even "good" at telling the story. However, they are all resources in illustrating the variety of views and seeking out truths and realities. 

1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving (National Geographic) by Catherine O'Neill Grace

A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting and Diane de Groat
by Kevin Cunningham (Author), Peter Benoit (Author)

Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message (Reading Rainbow Book) by Chief Jake Swamp (Author), Erwin Printup (Illustrator), Jr. (Illustrator)

Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast by Kate Waters and Russ Kendall

How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting (Author), Beth Peck (Illustrator)

Nickommoh!: A Thanksgiving Celebration by Jackie French Koller and Marcia Sewall

People of the Breaking Day by Marcia Sewall (Author, Illustrator)

Squanto and the First Thanksgiving (On My Own Holidays) by Joyce K. Kessel (Author), Lisa Donze (Illustrator)

Squanto and the First Thanksgiving: The Legendary American Tale (Rabbit Ears' Holiday Classics) by Mr. Eric Metaxas

Strawberry Thanksgiving by  Paula Jennings (Modern Curriculum Press. Cleveland, OH, 1992)


The Circle of Thanks: Native American Poems and Songs of Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac and Murv Jacob

The First Strawberries (Picture Puffins) by Joseph Bruchac and Anna Vojtech

The First Thanksgiving Feast by Joan Anderson (Author), George Ancona (Illustrator)

The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us by Robert Tracy McKenzie

The People Shall Continue by Simon J Ortiz (Author), Sharol Graves (Illustrator)

The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving by Ann Mcgovern (Author), Elroy Freem (Illustrator)

The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh

The Very First Americans (All Aboard Books) by Cara Ashrose (Author), Bryna Waldman (Illustrator)

Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks! (Reading Railroad) by Margaret Sutherland and Sonja Lamut

The First Thanksgiving (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3) by Linda Hayward (Author), James Watling (Illustrator)

Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac (Author), Greg Shed (Illustrator)

The First Thanksgiving (Picture Puffin Books) by Jean Craighead George (Author), Thomas Locker (Illustrator)


We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell (Author), Frane Lessac (Illustrator)

If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving by Chris Newell