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Melmed, Laura Krauss

This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story

32 pp. | HarperCollins | September, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-688-14554-X $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-688-14555-8 $$15.89
(4) PS Illustrated by Mark Buehner. From one Pilgrim in a tree observed by two passing Wampanoag Indian girls to twelve "tables groaning / beneath a harvest spread," generally taut rhyming verse describes preparations for a shared first Thanksgiving feast. The book's message of embracing diversity is undercut by the generic quality of the faces herein (all beam and have identical features), but the conceit is affecting.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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