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Canadian Thanksgiving is different...

sassymonkey — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:47:44 -0600

Ours is more comparable to a European harvest festival than American Thanksgiving. And it's a quieter holiday.

Now as for reading at Thanksgiving, since I don't get football it would give me something to do in front of the TV without having to really watch it. ;)

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Thanksgiving Comes First

Anali — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:39:44 -0600

I read your headline and took a double take. Thanksgiving Reading? It almost seems like an oxymoron. I guess, I always equate Thanksgiving with eating, which I love, and football, which I don't get either.

And I'm ashamed to admit that I only learned recently that Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving. I actually just wrote a post a few days ago about Thanksgiving and how it seems to be swept aside in the whole rush towards Christmas.

A blogger named "Suldog" has started a movement for us all to remember that Thanksgiving Comes First. I think it's a great idea.

Anali

Thanksgiving Reading

sassymonkey — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:06:12 -0600

As a Canadian, American Thanksgiving always seemed so...big. It seems like such a bigger event than our own harvest festival Thanksgiving held more than a month earlier. When I was a kid the difference in dates was so very confusing. I remember reading a book where a character talked about Christmas decorations coming out right after Thanksgiving and my response was, "What? Before Halloween???" Needless to say I've since learned a lot more about American Thanksgiving (I still don't get the football association, but then I don't really get football). What better way to celebrate it than to point out some Thanksgiving books?

In the category of Thanksgiving books children's literature takes center stage. At Real Learning Elizabeth points out some favourite family books. Her absolute favourite? N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims for its beautiful artwork.

Dear Abbi and her children hit up the library for reading material, including the slightly unusual for the season Molly's Pilgrim.

Molly's Pilgrim is a different type of "Thanksgiving/Pilgrim" book that my mom found with the kids at the library. I'm glad we included it with all of the other traditional Thanksgiving books. Molly was a young, modern Jewish girl who migrated to America with her family to escape religious persecution. The book is written from that slant, and it was fun way to open up discussion about those topics.

Wild Rose Reader chimes in with a review of Thanksgiving Day at Our House: Thanksgiving Poems for the Very Young and some additional Thanksgiving poetry.

And no, Thanksgiving isn't all about the kids. And neither are the books. Get Lit provides a list of adult literature with Thanksgiving themes. Truman Capote wrote a holiday classic? Who knew!

Contributing Editor Sassymonkey also blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.