'Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey

This tall-tailed tall tale tells how eight school children on a field trip, their teacher, a turkey farmer named Mack Nugget and gobblers Ollie, Stanley, Larry, Moe, Wally, Beaver, Shemp, and Groucho share in a Thanksgiving all can remember vividly.” “Usually, turkeys don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.

Kids often care deeply about animals and this book might give them ideas.Īugust was a wonderful time for me to read this: no wait at the library and no Thanksgiving blues. I’d recommend it for all children but I can just imagine the parents in omnivorous families getting pestered by (some of) their kids after they’re read/listened to this book. I would recommend this book for vegan and vegetarian children and families.

Yes, the story is didactic, but it’s done with humor and heart, and I enjoyed it. The illustrations aren’t amazing, but they’re colorful and engaging, and a few are very amusing, and I think they’re fun. The poem has some hiccups but it’s still fun and enjoyable to read aloud. I appreciated that the kids were a multicultural bunch. This is a funny and heartfelt story of 8 children saving 8 turkeys, all ending up guests at their family’s apparently vegan Thanksgiving dinners. So the children decide to smuggle all the turkeys home, and all their Thanksgiving dinners become vegetarian this year.Dav Pilkey, of Captain Underpants fame, has written this story poem so that it reads like and reminds readers of Clement Clarke Moore's The Night Before Christmas, This is one of his early books, his third book published. They have fun playing with eight exuberant turkeys but are shocked to learn that Farmer Mack Nuggett plans to kill all the turkeys for Thanksgiving dinners. The day before Thanksgiving, eight boys and girls take a field trip to a turkey farm. The incomparable Dav Pilkey adapts Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem to tell his wacky Thanksgiving tale. So the children decide to smuggle all the turkeys home, and all their Thanksgiving dinners become vegetarian this year.

'Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey