Reviews for Thanks for Thanksgiving

The average rating for Thanks for Thanksgiving based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-10-24 00:00:00 Alan Black Although I find Julie Markes' narrative sweetly poetic, descriptive and really do love Doris Barrette's brightly evocative and engaging accompanying illustrations (they are lush, detailed, expressive and a true visual feast), I was and remain more than a bit disappointed with and by Thanks for Thanksgiving, as there seem to be for the most part descriptions and depictions of non Thanksgiving based reasons for which to be thankful (such as school, music, playgrounds, pets, all important reasons for which to show gratitude, perhaps, but for me, not really part of Thanksgiving as a specific holiday and autumn as a season, and with that fact in mind, I actually counted only two specifically Thanksgiving holiday based scenarios, which I for one have found rather sad and frustrating). And thus, while I would without hesitation consider Thanks for Thanksgiving a tender and enchantingly lyrical homage to thankfulness (to showing gratitude, counting one's blessings) I would not really ever consider Thanks for Thanksgiving as being all that much about the Thanksgiving holiday, as concerning and describing a specific celebration. Still to be recommended is Thanks for Thanksgiving, just with in my opinion the necessary caveat that there is more of an emphasis on the concept of general gratitude than on the specific holiday traditions of Thanksgiving and the season of late autumn/early winter when it is celebrated.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-19 00:00:00 Brad Pettingell Love this one! The illustrations are absolutely adorable. This is exactly the sort of Thanksgiving book I was hoping for but having such trouble finding; a story with a contemporary family, yet a timeless quality, too--filled with things that children are thankful for in their own lives, but also with a fair share of autumn surroundings and a big ol' Thanksgiving feast at the end! It's a simple rhyming story but heart-felt sentiments and the illustrations really won me over.