Sunday, July 28, 2024

The Thanksgiving Story (1954)

the Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh is the version of Thanksgiving I learned as a child. The Mayflower arrives in the new world after a treacherous voyage. Life is hard. Relations with the Indians are good as they celebrate a first Thanksgiving. I will save this book with my other ancestral belongings. It tells a story we want to believe.

Rain Makes Applesauce (1964)

  Rain Makes Applesauce by Julian Scheer (1964) bears a silver Caldecott Honor Book on it's cover, which is why I look at it. I don'...