Download or read book The First Thanksgiving written by Robert Tracy McKenzie and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran historian Robert Tracy McKenzie sets aside centuries of legend and political stylization to present the mixed blessing that was the first Thanksgiving. Like good narrative history, McKenzie's critical account of our Pilgrim ancestors confronts us with our own unresolved issues of national and spiritual identity.
Download or read book What Was the First Thanksgiving written by Joan Holub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn more about the history of the feast that started off as a harvest celebration and has now become a national holiday. After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors. Of course, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag didn’t know it at the time, but they were making history.
Download or read book The Story of the First Thanksgiving written by Don Bolognese and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this illustrated story of the first Thanksgiving….and then learn to draw it yourself!
Download or read book My First Thanksgiving written by Tomie dePaola and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomie dePaola’s simple text and bright illustrations perfectly capture the joy of this special holiday. Young readers will love learning more about the traditional celebrations of the day.
Download or read book America s Real First Thanksgiving written by Robyn Gioia and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of America's first real Thanksgiving, celebrated by the Spanish and the native Timucua in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565 with a feast that may have included a pork stew, wild turkey, corn, and beans.
Download or read book The First Thanksgiving written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pilgrims called the celebration the Harvest Feast. The Pawtuxet Indians thought of it as the Green Corn Dance. But the first Thanksgiving was much more than that. Join Newbery Medalist Jean Craighead George and beloved illustrator Thomas Locker as they trace the passage of time from the melting of the glaciers that created Cape Cod and Plymouth Rock, to the moment the Pawtuxet Indians and the Pilgrims met and feasted on the bounty of the New World. From the simple text to the lush illustrations, the story of a harvest feast turned beloved tradition will captivate readers young and old. “Correcting misconceptions and clarifying contemporary attitudes, this beautiful book brings fresh insight and a fairer balance to the traditional story.”—Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book The First Thanksgiving written by and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.
Download or read book The First Thanksgiving Feast written by Joan Anderson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the first harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 using the Pilgrim and Indian actors and the seventeenth-century setting of Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Download or read book The Pilgrims First Thanksgiving written by Ann McGovern and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration.
Download or read book If You Were at the First Thanksgiving written by Anne Kamma and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions and answers about the first Thanksgiving and what it was like to live in America in the 1620's.
Download or read book Squanto and the First Thanksgiving 2nd Edition written by Joyce K. Kessel and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Pilgrims landed near Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 they were unprepared for the challenges they would face. Many Pilgrims died until Squanto, a Patuxet Indian, taught them how to survive. To give thanks for a good year, the Pilgrims threw a huge feast, later called Thanksgiving. Encourage understanding of diverse cultures. Featuring full-page illustrations, these beautiful editions look at the history and customs associated with various holidays and present early readers with high-interest offerings.
Download or read book Rivka s First Thanksgiving written by Elsa Okon Rael and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Rabbi Yoshe Preminger, Sir, My Bubbeh believes you are the wisest man in the whole world, but I cannot agree with her. You have read a thousand books, but you do not seem to understand that immigrants came to America to escape from mean, wicked people who hurt them and their families. That is why the Pilgrims came and that is why the Jewish people came later. The Pilgrims were thankful and I think that we should be too.Signed byRivka Rabin
Download or read book The Very First Thanksgiving Day written by Rhonda Gowler Greene and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming verses trace the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving Day.
Download or read book The First Thanksgiving written by Kathryn Lynn Davis and published by Little Simon. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Thanksgiving with this lift-the-flap book from Nancy Davis! Nancy Davis recreates the excitement and wonder of the first Thanksgiving--how the pilgrims came to America and how the Native Americans taught them to plant and then joined them in a Thanksgiving feast. Parents can use the simple text and the bright, graphic illustrations of this lift-the-flap book to introduce a very young child to this holiday.
Download or read book Pete the Cat The First Thanksgiving written by Kimberly Dean and published by HarperFestival. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete the cat learns about the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving when he takes part in a school play on the topic.
Download or read book The Thanksgiving Story written by Alice Dalgliesh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this festive Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages. Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things get a little more cramped when their baby brother Oceanus is born during the passage. However, when they arrive, there are even worse challenges to face as the Pilgrims are subjected to hunger, cold, and sickness that put their small colony in great danger. With the help of the Native Americans though, they might just be able to survive their first year in this strange land—and have a November harvest to celebrate for generations!
Download or read book The First Thanksgiving Of 1621 written by Matthew Cullen and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a great book to introduce very young children to the story of the first Thanksgiving and why we celebrate Thanksgiving.
