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Lakin, Patricia

Fat Chance Thanksgiving

32 pp. | Whitman | September, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-8075-2288-0 $$14.95

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Stacey Schuett. When Carla and her mother finally get their own apartment after losing everything in a fire, Carla wants a huge Thanksgiving feast, but Mama, citing lack of space and money, says, "Fat chance." Thinking like the Pilgrims, resourceful Carla manages to gather their new neighbors for a communal feast. Colorful illustrations nicely contrast Carla's imaginings of Pilgrim times with her own multicultural, urban neighborhood.

Reviewer: Susan Halperin