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The Thanksgiving story by Alice Dalgliesh (Paperback)
The Thanksgiving story by Alice Dalgliesh (Paper Book)
Contents
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From the dust jacket:
This is a book to read aloud to children when they first want to know why we have Thanksgiving Day. Children a little older may read it themselves.
The story tells of one family on the Mayflower, of their hardships on the voyage and during their first winter. It tells, too, of joy in the arrival of their new baby, of spring in their new home, of planting, harvest, and the giving of thanks.
ALICE DALGLIESH has written the text so that it carries something of the feeling of a great enterprise, something of the struggle for food and shelter—yet always keeps close to family life and so to the children reading it. HELEN SEWELL has kept the same spirit in her distinctive pictures which have much of the character of American primitive paintings.
Author's Note:
In writing the text and making the pictures for this book, Helen Sewell and I have kept them both very simple--so they tell the story of one family and of the changing seasons.
The Pilgrims and settlers were chiefly a group of country people--farmers, weavers, and other workmen. They wore the clothes of the time--perhaps less elaborate--and they wore colors. The wide, tall hats were expensive, so the men and boys had knitted and cloth caps for ordinary occasions.
The plan of the Mayflower (which is a plan of a typical ship of the period) and the map are by Rafael Palacios.
From the dust jacket:
This is a book to read aloud to children when they first want to know why we have Thanksgiving Day. Children a little older may read it themselves.
The story tells of one family on the Mayflower, of their hardships on the voyage and during their first winter. It tells, too, of joy in the arrival of their new baby, of spring in their new home, of planting, harvest, and the giving of thanks.
ALICE DALGLIESH has written the text so that it carries something of the feeling of a great enterprise, something of the struggle for food and shelter—yet always keeps close to family life and so to the children reading it. HELEN SEWELL has kept the same spirit in her distinctive pictures which have much of the character of American primitive paintings.
Author's Note:
In writing the text and making the pictures for this book, Helen Sewell and I have kept them both very simple--so they tell the story of one family and of the changing seasons.
The Pilgrims and settlers were chiefly a group of country people--farmers, weavers, and other workmen. They wore the clothes of the time--perhaps less elaborate--and they wore colors. The wide, tall hats were expensive, so the men and boys had knitted and cloth caps for ordinary occasions.
The plan of the Mayflower (which is a plan of a typical ship of the period) and the map are by Rafael Palacios.
Description
A Pilgrim family's struggle to survive in their harsh new homeland culminates in a thanksgiving feast.
Awards
Caldecott Medal (Honor Book — 1955)
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