This list of Thanksgiving picture books and juvenile fiction titles focus on history and food — along with family, the most important parts of the holiday for those who celebrate. These books are perfect for sharing with kids, siblings, caregivers–in person or over Zoom! And best of all, they’re all available at MCPL, for pick-up with Holds-to-Go.
Thanksgiving Books About Food
Food, Rilla Alexander
Don’t Eat Too Much Turkey!, Miriam Cohen
Time for Cranberries, Lisl Detlefsen
Cranberry Thanksgiving, Wende Devlin
Alligator Arrived With Apples, Crescent Dragonwagon
Applesauce Season, Eden Lipson
Gobble, Gobble, Tucker!, Leslie McGuirk
Sharing the Bread: an Old Fashioned Thanksgiving Story, Pat Miller
Let’s Eat!=!A Comer!, Pat Mora
Bee Bim Bop!, Linda Sue Park
Mangia! Mangia! Amy Sanger
Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’, Eileen Spinelli
I Am the Turkey, Michele Sobel Spirn
Potluck, Anne Shelby
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?, Jane Yolen
Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao, Kat Zhang
History:
Happy Thanksgiving Rebus, David A. Adler
Thanksgiving Day Gail Gibbons
The Very First Thanksgiving Day Rhonda Gowler Greene
An Outlaw Thanksgiving Emily Arnold McCully
Thanksgiving Miriam Nerlove
Sarah Gives Thanks: How Thanksgiving Became a National Holiday, Mike Allegra
Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Story of Thanksgiving, Robert Merrill Bartlett
Thanksgiving: The True Story, Penny Colman
P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet, Carol Crane
Thanksgiving, Meredith Dash
We Celebrate Thanksgiving in Fall, Rebecca Felix
The First Thanksgiving, Jean Craighead George ,
Thanksgiving Is, Gail Gibbons
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving, Catherine O’Neill Grace
The First Thanksgiving, Linda Hayward
Celebrate Thanksgiving with Turkey, Family and Counting Blessings, Deborah Heiligman
Thanksgiving, Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Let’s Celebrate Thanksgiving, Patrick Lewis
Let’s Celebrate Thanksgiving, Peter Roop
The First Thanksgiving, Andrew Santella
Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast, Kate Waters