Thanksgiving Tales for Children
Classic Children's Stories of Gratitude, Family, Charity, and Holiday WonderBy Lucy Maud Montgomery, Amy Ella Blanchard, Louisa May Alcott, George Eliot, Eugene Field, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan Coolidge, Edward Everett Hale, Eleanor H. Porter, Andrew Lang, Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Phila Butler Bowman, Katherine Grace Hulbert, Agnes Carr, Eleanor L. Skinner, P. J. Stahl, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sheldon C. Stoddard, Kate Upson Clark, Albert F. Blaisdell, Francis K. Ball, Winthrop Packard, R. K. Munkittrick, E. S. Brooks, Maud Lindsay, J. T. Trowbridge, Miss L. B. Pingree, Emily Hewitt Leland, Sophie Swett, Fannie Wilder Brown, Alice Wheildon, Annie Hamilton Donnell, 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
Length28h 8m
About this audiobook
Thanksgiving Tales for Children gathers a capacious repertory of holiday fiction, moral anecdote, domestic sketch, folklore, and nature writing around the season's intertwined ideas of gratitude, charity, family, and communal memory. Its range moves from homely New England scenes and humorous youthful misadventures to fairy-tale inflections and reflective accounts of generosity. Standout holiday narratives are complemented by pieces that complicate festivity with poverty, loneliness, obligation, and reconciliation, placing the volume within the formative tradition of children's literature that joined entertainment to ethical imagination. The contributors represent a broad nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Anglo-American literary culture: celebrated novelists and storytellers appear beside prolific writers for juvenile magazines, school readers, and domestic periodicals. Their collective work reflects the era's investment in the child as a moral and imaginative reader, while drawing on regionalism, sentimental realism, reform-minded domestic fiction, and inherited folkloric forms. Especially strong is the anthology's chorus of women writers, whose attention to household labor, kinship, and social care enlarges Thanksgiving beyond ceremony. This volume is recommended for readers seeking a rich historical cross-section of children's writing and of Thanksgiving's literary meanings. Its many voices invite comparison across styles, regions, and moral assumptions, making it valuable for family reading, classroom study, and research into holiday culture. Read together, these tales foster a lively dialogue between tradition and change, private feeling and public responsibility.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length28 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 8, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Christmas-Tree Land (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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