The Big Fat Turkey Collection: Classic Thanksgiving Stories for Kids
Classic Children's Tales of Gratitude, Family, Kindness, and Thanksgiving TraditionsBy Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eugene Field, Louisa May Alcott, Katherine Grace Hulbert, Isabel Gordon Curtis, Rose Terry Cooke, Emily Hewitt Leland, E. S. Brooks, Agnes Carr, Sheldon C. Stoddard, Kate Upson Clark, Albert F. Blaisdell
Length24h 7m
About this audiobook
The Big Fat Turkey Collection gathers classic Thanksgiving stories for young readers into a lively panorama of holiday imagination, domestic comedy, moral instruction, and seasonal wonder. Its varied forms—realist sketches, sentimental narratives, humorous episodes, family tales, and historically inflected fiction—trace the meanings attached to gratitude, generosity, community, and the autumnal feast. Alongside festive turkey-centered misadventures, the volume includes quieter meditations on kindness, household ritual, and the social obligations that give celebration its purpose. The contributors represent a broad nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American literary culture, bringing together celebrated writers of children's fiction, regionalism, domestic literature, moral tale traditions, and popular magazine writing. Their collective work reflects a period in which Thanksgiving became a powerful imaginative setting for narrating family life and civic belonging. Distinctive sensibilities—from New England local color and reform-minded sentiment to playful juvenile adventure—allow the anthology to register both the idealized and complicated dimensions of communal celebration. This collection is especially rewarding for readers seeking a compact introduction to the literary history of Thanksgiving and to the changing conventions of children's literature. Students, families, and general readers will find abundant opportunities to compare tone, setting, characterization, and ethical vision across its selections. Read together, these stories create a rich dialogue about tradition, memory, hospitality, and the enduring pleasures of shared seasonal reading.
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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (16)
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GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length24 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 11, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Lob Lie-by-the-Fire, The Brownies and Other Tales (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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