The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, Asa Don, 1876-1960

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories" by Asa Don Dickinson is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. This anthology celebrates the themes and traditions associated with Thanksgiving, featuring a variety of tales that reflect the holiday's spirit, history, and the sharing of gratitude. Each story is curated to appeal to children and is accompanied by notes to assist selection for readings. At the start of the book, the editor introduces the purpose and inspiration behind the collection, drawing on the success of a previous anthology about Christmas stories. The opening story, "The Kingdom of the Greedy," presents a whimsical fairy tale about a king whose subjects are obsessed with pastries, leading to humorous situations around their unhealthy cravings. As the tale unfolds, the king seeks to remedy their gluttonous ways, showcasing a playful narrative that warmly prepares readers for the festive and heartwarming stories that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

The kingdom of the greedy / P. J. Stahl

Thankful / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving mascot / Sheldon C. Stoddard

Mistress Esteem Elliott's molasses cake / Kate Upson Clark

The first Thanksgiving / Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball

Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum / Winthrop Packard

How we kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown / Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wishbone Valley / R. K. Munkittrick

Patem's salmagundi / E. S. Brooks

Miss November's dinner party / Agnes Carr

The visit / Maud Lindsay

The story of Ruth and Naomi / Adapted from the Bible

Bert's Thanksgiving / J. T. Trowbridge

A Thanksgiving story / Miss L. B. Pingree

John Inglefield's Thanksgiving / Nathaniel Hawthorne

How Obadiah brought about a Thanksgiving / Emily Hewitt Leland

The white turkey's wing / Sophie Swett

The Thanksgiving goose / Fannie Wilder Brown

An English dinner of Thanksgiving / George Eliot

A novel postman / Alice Wheildon

Ezra's Thanksgivin' out west / Eugene Field

Chip's Thanksgiving / Annie Hamilton Donnell

The master of the harvest / Mrs. Alfred Gatty

A Thanksgiving dinner / Edna Payson Brett

Two old boys / Pauline Shackleford Colyar

A Thanksgiving dinner that flew away / Hezekiah Butterworth

Mon-daw-min / H. R. Schoolcraft

A mystery in the kitchen / Olive Thorne Miller

Who ate the dolly's dinner? / Isabel Gordon Curtis

An old-fashioned Thanksgiving / Rose Terry Cooke

1800 and froze to death / C. A. Stephens.

Credits:

E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Emmy, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (https://archive.org/details/americana)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 78.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Release date is 2014-03-11