Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving is a parody of a familiar Christmas story that most of us remember very well. This new holiday book portrays a bus of children on a field trip to a farm sometime near Thanksgiving. The children enjoy playing with the turkeys, but then find out the turkeys are to be chopped up with an ax. The children decide to hide the turkeys in their clothing and sneak them off the farm. Instead of eating the turkeys, they have them as their guests at Thanksgiving dinner. The rhyme and rhythm of this book create a pleasurable reading experience. This could be a way to talk about the treatment of animals in your classroom.Pilkey, D. (1990) Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. Orchard Books: New York.
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