This is Thanksgiving

Harriet Ziefert
Illustrator:  Deborah Zemke 
Board Book
For ages 2 to 4
Blue Apple Books, 2004   ISBN: 978-1593540654

Let us all sit down, the whole family, and have a Thanksgiving feast. Let's look at all the wonderful different foods as they come to the table. There are the vegetables, the cranberries, and "the turkey stuffed and brown." Then all the guests arrive and there are indeed so many of them that "it looks like they will never stop!"

In a bouncing rhyming cadence which often bears a slight resemblance to the much loved "The House that Jack Built", we join a family as they celebrate Thanksgiving. Colorful one-dimensional artwork on sturdy boards make this a perfect book for smaller hands, and little people will love the rhythmical rhymes and the grand finale with its double page spread and folding out pages.

Review Written by Marya Jansen-Gruber