The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories
Classic Tales of Gratitude, Family, Harvest, and American Holiday Tradition for Young ReadersBy Unknown Author
Length9h 22m
About this audiobook
The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories gathers seasonal narratives into a compact literary celebration of gratitude, family, memory, and communal obligation. Its selections likely move across domestic sketches, moral tales, historical recollections, and imaginative episodes, revealing how Thanksgiving has served both as a subject for children's literature and as a vehicle for civic instruction. The volume's most memorable pieces are those that join festive imagery—shared meals, harvest abundance, and reunion—to questions of generosity, responsibility, and belonging. Edited by Asa Don Dickinson, the collection reflects the early twentieth-century anthologist's role as a cultural mediator: arranging accessible literature for young readers while preserving connections to inherited national traditions. The contributors' varied voices, drawn from different periods and literary temperaments, bring together sentimental, didactic, humorous, and reflective approaches to the holiday. In doing so, the anthology participates in the broader educational culture that used children's reading to introduce history, ethics, and social feeling. This volume will reward readers seeking a concentrated encounter with the literary meanings of Thanksgiving. It offers students, families, and scholars an opportunity to compare styles and assumptions across multiple writers within a single seasonal framework. Read together, these stories foster a valuable dialogue between celebration and critique, private affection and public ritual, imaginative pleasure and cultural memory.
Audiobook details
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GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length9 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 5, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories
2The Birds' Christmas Carol (With Original Illustrations) (Annotated)
3PREFACE
4THE KINGDOM OF THE GREEDY By P. J. Stahl
5THANKFUL By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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6BEETLE RING'S THANKSGIVING MASCOT By Sheldon C. Stoddard
7MISTRESS ESTEEM ELLIOTT'S MOLASSES CAKE The Story of a Postponed Thanksgiving By Kate Upson Clark
8THE FIRST THANKSGIVING By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball
9THANKSGIVING AT TODD'S ASYLUM By Winthrop Packard
10HOW WE KEPT THANKSGIVING AT OLDTOWN By Harriet Beecher Stowe
11WISHBONE VALLEY By R. K. Munkittrick
12PATEM'S SALMAGUNDI By E. S. Brooks
13MRS. NOVEMBER'S DINNER PARTY By Agnes Carr
14THE VISIT A Story of The Children of The Tower By Maud Lindsay
15THE STORY OF RUTH AND NAOMI Adapted from the Bible, By C. S. Bailey and C. M. Lewis
16BERT'S THANKSGIVING By J. T. Trowbridge
17A THANKSGIVING STORY By Miss L. B. Pingree
18JOHN INGLEFIELD'S THANKSGIVING By Nathaniel Hawthorne
19HOW OBADIAH BROUGHT ABOUT A THANKSGIVING By Emily Hewitt Leland
20THE WHITE TURKEY'S WING By Sophie Swett
21THE THANKSGIVING GOOSE By Fannie Wilder Brown
22AN ENGLISH DINNER OF THANKSGIVING By George Eliot
23A NOVEL POSTMAN By Alice W. Wheildon
24EZRA'S THANKSGIVIN' OUT WEST By Eugene Field
25CHIP'S THANKSGIVING By Annie Hamilton Donnell
26THE MASTER OF THE HARVEST By Mrs. Alfred Gatty
27A THANKSGIVING DINNER By Edna Payson Brett
28TWO OLD BOYS By Pauline Shackleford Colyar
29A THANKSGIVING DINNER THAT FLEW AWAY By Hezekiah Butterworth
30MON-DAW-MIN, OR THE ORIGIN OF INDIAN CORN By H. R. Schoolcraft
31A MYSTERY IN THE KITCHEN By Olive Thorne Miller
32WHO ATE THE DOLLY'S DINNER? By Isabel Gordon Curtis
33AN OLD-FASHIONED THANKSGIVING By Rose Terry Cooke
341800 AND FROZE TO DEATH By C. A. Stephens
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