THANKSGIVING DAY BOOKS... It's time to sing that old, favorite of ours...

Over the bridges
And down the road
To Grandmother's house we go...

At the time of this post, these Thanksgiving Day books (and a video, plus a cookbook for the grownups) were available, at Marathon Library, for the young ones:

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Video -- Children's Section RUG
Title Rugrats.
A Rugrats Thanksgiving [videorecording] / Nickelodeon.

Publisher Hollywood, Calif. : Nickelodeon ;
Paramount, c1997. Description 1 videocassette (47 min.) : sd. , col. ; 1/2 in. Notes "A double length holiday special plus 2 bonus cartoons" - - container.

Summary Determined to protect Mr. Turkey from the serving platter, the Rugrats uncover the real meaning of the first American holiday.

Contents Rugrats Thanksgiving - - Chuckie is rich - - Home movies. -------------------

Adult Nonfiction Section 641.568 GAR
Author Garrison, Holly
Title The Thanksgiving cookbook / Holly Garrison.

Publisher New York : Toronto : New York : Macmillan
Pub. Co. ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.
Description xi, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes Includes index.
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J -- Children's Section 394.2 BAR
Author Barth, Edna, 1914-
Title Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian corn : the story of the Thanksgiving symbols / by Edna Barth ; illustrated by Ursula Arndt.

Publisher New York : Seabury Press, [1975]
Description 96 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes "A Clarion book." Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.

Summary Traces the history of this American harvest
celebration and the development of its symbols and legends.
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J -- Children's Section 394.268 Bar
Author Bartlett, Robert Merrill, 1898-
Title Thanksgiving Day. Illus. by W. T. Mars.

Publisher New York, Crowell [c1965] Description 1 v. (unpaged) col. illus. 22 cm.
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J -- Children's Section 812 BEH
Author Behrens, June
Title Feast of Thanksgiving, the first American holiday; a play. Pictures by Anne Siberell.

Publisher Chicago, Childrens Press [1974] Description 31 p. col. illus. 22 x 27 cm. Notes "A Golden Gate junior book."

Summary Recreates the first Thanksgiving as it might have
been, featuring Squanto and a Pilgrim family.
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J -- Children's Section 811 HOP
Title Merrily comes our harvest in : poems for Thanksgiving / selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; ill. by Ben Shecter. Edition 1st ed.

Publisher New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
c1978. Description 32 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes Includes index.

Summary Contains 20 poems with Thanksgiving themes.
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E -- Children's Section B
Author Balian, Lorna
Title Sometimes it's turkey, sometimes it's feathers.
Publisher Nashville, Abingdon Press [1973]
Description [32] p. illus. 24 cm.

Summary When she finds a turkey egg, Mrs. Gumm decides to
hatch it and have a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
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J -- Children's Section 970.004 KES
Author Kessel, Joyce K.
Title Squanto and the first Thanksgiving / by Joyce K. Kessel ; pictures by Lisa Donze.

Publisher Minneapolis [Minn.] : Carolrhoda Books, c1983.
Description 47 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Carolrhoda on my own books

Summary Describes how the Indian Squanto, an English-speaking Christian and former slave, whose village had been wiped out by smallpox, taught the Pilgrims the skills they needed to survive the harshMassachusetts winter. -------------------

E -- Children's Section COH
Author Cohen, Barbara
Title Molly's pilgrim / by Barbara Cohen ; illustrated by Michael J.
Deraney.

Publisher New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1983.
Description [32] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Summary Told to make a doll like a pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly'sembarrassment. -------------------

E -- Children's Section DEV
Author Devlin, Wende
Title Cranberry Thanksgiving [by] Wende and Harry Devlin.

Publisher New York, Parents' Magazine Press [1971]
Description [33] p. col. illus. 27 cm.

Summary Grandmother's cranberry bread was very special and Maggie took care that no one stole the recipe. Cranberry bread recipe includedat the back of the book.
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J -- Children's Section 974.402 Wei
Author Weisgard, Leonard, 1916-
Title The Plymouth Thanksgiving, written and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard.

Publisher Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1967]
Description [64] p. illus. (part col.) 27 cm.

Summary The Pilgrims' long and arduous voyage to the New World, their efforts to find a suitable harbor and place to settle, early encounters and peaceful coexistence with the Indians, and the abundant first year of farming and harvest thanksgiving are retold in a simple, researched textand accompanying illustrations.
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E -- Children's Section S
Author Schulz, Charles M.
Title A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving / by Charles M. Schulz.

Publisher New York : Random House, c1974.
Description [44] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes "A Charlie Brown special."

Summary Charlie Brown is in a dilemma when Peppermint Pattie invites herself and several friends to his house for Thanksgiving dinner.
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E -- Children's Section S
Author Stevenson, James, 1929-
Title Fried feathers for Thanksgiving / by James Stevenson.

Publisher New York : Greenwillow Books, c1986.
Description [32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.

Summary Mean witches Dolores and Lavinia try to spoil Thanksgiving for everyone else but nice witch Emma and her friends outwit them.
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E -- Children's Section P
Author Pilkey, Dav, 1966-
Title 'Twas the night before Thanksgiving / story and pictures by Dav Pilkey.

Publisher New York : Orchard Books, c1990.
Description [32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.

Summary School children on a field trip to Mack Nugget's farm save the lives of eight turkeys in this poem based on "The Night Before Christmas." -------------------

J -- Children's Section 394.2649 GRA
Author Grace, Catherine O'Neill, 1950-
Title 1621 : a new look at Thanksgiving / by Catherine O'Neill Grace and Margaret M. Bruchac with Plimoth Plantation ; photographs by Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson.

Publisher Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2001.
Description p. cm.
Notes Includes index.

Summary A recreation of the first Thanksgiving reveals the actual events during the three days that the Wampanoag people and the colonistscame together. -------------------

J - Juvenile Nonfiction Oversize 394.2649 AND
Author Anderson, Laurie Halse.
Title Thank you, Sarah! : the woman who saved Thanksgiving / Laurie Halse Anderson ; illustrated by Matt Faulkner.

Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2002. Description 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.

Summary Relates how Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national holiday. -------------------

E -- Children's Section S
Author Spirn, Michele.
Title I am the turkey / story by Michele Sobel Spirn ; pictures by Joy
Allen.

Publisher [New York] : HarperCollins, c2004.
Description 48 p. : ill (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Series An I can read book

Summary Mark does not want to play the turkey in the second grade Thanksgiving play, but then he ends up saving the day.
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E -- Children's Section S
Author Stanley, Diane.
Title Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation / by Diane Stanley ; illustrated by Holly Berry.

Publisher New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2004.
Description 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Series Stanley, Diane. Time-traveling twins.

Summary Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, visit Plymouth Plantation to see how the Pilgrims lived and to celebrate a big feast with the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
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E -- Children's Section A
Author Archer, Peggy.
Title Turkey surprise / Peggy Archer ; illustrated by Thor Wickstrom.
Publisher New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2005.
Description 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.

Summary A turkey hides from two brothers looking for food
for Thanksgiving Day, and they end up finding something better to eat. -------------------

J -- Children's Section 782.4216 AND
Author Anderson, Derek, 1969-
Title Over the river: a turkey's tale / [illustrated by] Derek Anderson; based on the song by Lydia Maria Child.
Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2005. Description 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Summary Presents the words to the popular Thanksgiving song, with illustrations of a turkey family going to Grandma and Grandpa Turkey's house, pursued by a boy with a toy gun and a dog who are hunting forThanksgiving dinner. -------------------

J -- Children's Section GIF
Author Giff, Patricia Reilly.
Title The candy corn contest / Patricia Reilly Giff ; illustrated by Blanche
Sims.

Publisher New York : Dell, c1984.
Description 76 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series Kids of the Polk Street School ; 3.
Notes "A Yearling book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references

Summary Richard looks forward to the Candy Corn contest in
Ms. Rooney's class, but he can't resist sneaking just a few pieces. -------------------

E -- Children's Section R
Author Rylant, Cynthia
Title Henry and Mudge under the yellow moon : the fourth book of their adventures / by Cynthia Rylant ; illustrated by Sucie Stevenson.
Publisher New York : Bradbury Press, c1988.
Description p. ; cm.

Summary In the autumn Henry and his big dog Mudge watch the leaves turn, meet with some Halloween spooks and share Thanksgiving dinner.
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J -- Children's Section DAN
Author Danziger, Paula, 1944-
Title Amber Brown is feeling blue / Paula Danziger ; illustrated by Tony Ross. Publisher New York : Putnam's, c1998.
Description 130 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Citation BL 12/01/98, SJ 11/98.

Summary Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parents' divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris and she must decide which parent she will be with on Thanksgiving.