This book talks about what the first Thanksgiving feast was, how and when it became a holiday. It also explains who the pilgrims were, why they came to America and their struggles and triumphs as colonists in the New World.

Introduces Thanksgiving feasts, Thanksgiving traditions, and the history of Thanksgiving.

Well-known together with lesser-known verses to the traditional Thanksgiving song are illustrated from both Grandmother's and the journeying family's point of view.

Presents information about the first Thanksgiving and the way that holiday is celebrated today.

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 text and accompanying illustrations.

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.

Introduces the holiday of Thanksgiving and some of the ways in which it is celebrated, explaining the origin and meaning behind such symbols as the turkey.