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Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving (Paperback)
by Dav Pilkey
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Holiday & festivals, Story, Ages 0-3, Children's books |
| Market price: ¥ 88.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A great book and a very welcome one for vegetarian families teaching children to be proactive and independent problem solvers, guided by empathy and love. |
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Author: Dav Pilkey
Publisher: Scholastic Bookshelf
Pub. in: October, 2004
ISBN: 0439669375
Pages: 32
Measurements: 8.2 x 10.1 x 0.2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00155
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`Twas the Night before Thanksgiving is about 8 hungry children with food as the only thing running through there minds. The setting of this book is in the afternoon, the day before Thanksgiving. The problem in this story is that when 8 kids arrive on a turkey farm on a field trip they have the best time. However, when they spot an ax, and asked what it was going to be used for. When the farmer told the children the horrible news of what it would be used for, they knew they had to do something... So children can read this book to find out if the helpless turkeys will end up someone's Thanksgiving dinner, or if the kids are able to pull off saving their lives. This book is amazingly funny, and the pictures are great. This wonderful book is defiantly for children or all ages.
Target readers:
Kids aged 0-3
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Dav Pilkey is the creator of many acclaimed children's books, including Dogzilla, Kat Kong, god bless the gargoyles, and the bestselling Captain Underpants series. His book The Paperboy received a Caldecott Honor. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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The incomparable Dav Pilkey adapts Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem to tell his wacky Thanksgiving tale. The day before Thanksgiving, eight boys and girls take a field trip to a turkey farm. They have fun playing with eight exuberant turkeys but are shocked to learn that Farmer Mack Nuggett plans to kill all the turkeys for Thanksgiving dinners. So the children decide to smuggle all the turkeys home, and all their Thanksgiving dinners become vegetarian this year. The turkeys' lives are saved!
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A reader, USA
<2006-12-19 00:00>
A holiday that has become focused on the full body and skeleton of a butchered bird is actually quite gruesome when one begins to look at it from the outside, especially as a vegetarian. It's nice to have a book that gives kids an alternative, shows them being proactive, independent problem solvers and guided by empathy and love. An environmentally friendly, great book for all and a very welcome one for vegetarian/vegan families. |
Gary Loewenthal, USA
<2006-12-19 00:00>
I saw this book at my dry cleaners, of all places, and loved it. The lesson that the kids in the story learn - that turkeys are deserving of kindness - is one that we adults can learn also. Having met a few rescued turkeys, I can report that, just as in the book, turkeys have distinct and expressive personalities, and are quite demonstrative at expressing emotions such as delight and consternation. In a non-threatening way, Twas the Night before Thanksgiving teaches us that the true spirit of Thanksgiving is giving others, including turkeys, something to be thankful for. |
A reader, USA
<2006-12-19 00:00>
Twas the Night before Thanksgiving follows the rhythm of Twas the Night before Christmas, and this is definitely a book that should be read out loud. I'm sending this with my son to school so his teacher can read it to the class. I've told her about it, and she and the class are waiting for it! One of my favorite illustrations is where the children are hugging the happy little turkeys. Also, I love the illustration of the children, suddenly turned all chubby, with turkey feathers sticking out from under their coats. Maybe some of the naysayers of this book should stop and consider some old favorites. Snow White committed breaking and entering. Do they warn their children that they should not break into people's house and randomly clean, like Snow White? My goodness! We might have a nation of pint-sized bandits, compulsively cleaning stranger's houses... And my eight year old son still does not like turkey at Thanksgiving, without reading Twas the Night before Thanksgiving. He likes the mashed potatoes and stuffing, no matter how much I try to hide the turkey with the mashed potatoes... Dav Pilkey is such a wonderful writer/illustrator of children's books. You should definitely check out his website, www.davpilkey.com. Mr. Pilkey, by the way, was not vegetarian when he wrote this or trying to send any "hippie, liberal" message. He's just an adult-sized kid who writes an entertaining book. |
A reader, USA
<2006-12-19 00:00>
My kids and I love this book. Written in the style of Twas the Night before Christmas...a group of school children are taken on a field trip. "When what with their wondering eyes should they see, but a miniature farm and eight tiny turkeys." A very sweet, non-violent story! |
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