Counting Our Blessings: Wonderful Thanksgiving Tales for Children
Classic Tales of Gratitude, Family, Harvest, and Holiday Generosity for Young ReadersBy Susan Coolidge, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Andrew Lang, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eugene Field, Edward Everett Hale, Phila Butler Bowman, Katherine Grace Hulbert, Eleanor L. Skinner, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, P. J. Stahl, Sheldon C. Stoddard, Kate Upson Clark, Albert F. Blaisdell, Francis K. Ball, Winthrop Packard, R. K. Munkittrick, E. S. Brooks, Agnes Carr, Maud Lindsay, J. T. Trowbridge, L. B. Pingree, Emily Hewitt Leland, Sophie Swet, Fannie Wilder Brown, Alice Wheildon, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Alfred Gatty, Edna Payson Brett, Pauline Shackleford Colyar, Hezekiah Butterworth, H. R. Schoolcraft, Olive Thorne Miller, Isabel Gordon Curtis, Rose Terry Cooke, C. A. Stephens, Sarah Orne Jewett
Length24h 10m
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Counting Our Blessings: Wonderful Thanksgiving Tales for Children gathers a capacious range of holiday narratives in which gratitude becomes both moral practice and imaginative occasion. Domestic sketches, historical episodes, animal stories, comic incidents, sentimental tales, and folkloric fables create a varied literary landscape for young readers. The volume places the Thanksgiving tradition within the broader nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culture of children's literature, where entertainment, ethical reflection, family life, and civic memory frequently converged. Its most memorable pieces illuminate kindness, hospitality, resilience, and communal celebration through accessible yet stylistically diverse forms. The contributors represent a remarkable cross-section of Anglo-American writing for children and families, including major novelists, regional realists, educators, poets, folklorists, and magazine writers. Their combined work reflects traditions of domestic fiction, moral instruction, local-color writing, fairy tale adaptation, and progressive pedagogical storytelling. Rather than offering a single account of the holiday, these voices trace how Thanksgiving could signify home, charity, national history, seasonal ritual, and the ethical recognition of interdependence. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking multiple entry points into a familiar celebration. It offers educators, families, and students an inviting resource for considering changing literary ideas about childhood and gratitude. Read together, its selections foster a rich dialogue between humor and sentiment, history and imagination, individual fortune and shared responsibility.
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GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length24 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 13, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Granny's Wonderful Chair (Annotated)
2An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott)
3CHAPTER I. GENEALOGY AND PARENTAGE.
4CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD.
5CHAPTER III. FRUITLANDS.
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6CHAPTER IV. THE SENTIMENTAL PERIOD.
7CHAPTER V. AUTHORSHIP.
8CHAPTER VI. THE YEAR OF GOOD LUCK.
9CHAPTER VII. HOSPITAL SKETCHES.
10CHAPTER VIII. EUROPE AND LITTLE WOMEN.
11CHAPTER IX. EUROPE.
12CHAPTER X. FAMILY CHANGES.
13CHAPTER XI. LAST YEARS.
14CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION.
15Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
16The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
17An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot)
18Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West (Eugene Field)
19John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
20Helen's Thanksgiving (Susan Coolidge)
21Thanksgiving at the Polls (Edward Everett Hale)
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23II
24III
25IV
26V
27VI
28VII
29Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving (Eleanor H. Porter)
30The Thanksgiving of the Wazir (Andrew Lang)
31The Master of the Harvest (Mrs. Alfred Gatty)
32How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
33The Queer Little Baker Man (Phila Butler Bowman)
34A Turkey for the Stuffing (Katherine Grace Hulbert)
35Mrs. November’s Party (Agnes Carr)
36The Debut of Dan’l Webster (Isabel Gordon Curtis)
37The Two Alms, or the Thanksgiving Day Gift (Eleanor L. Skinner)
38The Kingdom of the Greedy (P. J. Stahl)
39Thankful (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
40Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving Mascot (Sheldon C. Stoddard)
41Mistress Esteem Elliott's Molasses Cake (Kate Upson Clark)
42The First Thanksgiving (Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball)
43Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum (Winthrop Packard)
44Wishbone Valley (R. K. Munkittrick)
45Patem's Salmagundi (E. S. Brooks)
46Miss November's Dinner Party (Agnes Carr)
47The Visit (Maud Lindsay)
48The Story of Ruth and Naomi (Bible)
49Bert's Thanksgiving (J. T. Trowbridge)
50A Thanksgiving Story (Miss L. B. Pingree)
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