Poetry Friday – Thanksgiving Day at Our House
Posted by shelburns on November 21, 2008
Our librarian is so good about pulling seasonal books for the kids. I saw this one on the table and just had to snag it! The cover looked so appealing.
Thanksgiving Day at Our House: Thanksgiving Poems for the Very Young, by Nancy White Carlstrom, is full of poetry written from a child’s perspective. It is just the cutest! I am sharing just one of the poems today. There are 15 poems in the book, some serious but mostly funny.
The poem I’ve chosen is call The Day Before. I chose it because it deals with the day before Thanksgiving at school.
The Day Before
All kinds of turkeys
are strutting in the halls.
Finely feathered gobblers
are squawking out their calls.
Pilgrim people rush around
losing capes and hats.
Indians with their harvest feasts
are dropping them on mats.
The day before Thanksgiving
I really wouldn’t miss.
We don’t have any homework
so let’s give thanks for this!
This poem just really isn’t the same without the pictures. I encourage you to check it out! Find all of the other poetry today over at Holly Cupala’s blog, Brimstone Soup.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Great punch line to that poem– something I can really get behind! One of my “thankfuls” really is that work is 1/2 hour shorter the day before Thanksgiving.
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:26 am
This looks like a good one! I went to our library and all the good Thanksgiving books were checked out :0 Hopefully my sister found a good one to review.
Happy Holidays,
Kim
November 26th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I don’t know this book, but I’m going to look it up. I think at this point, after Thanksgiving. But, hey, I’ll know it for next year.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:35 am
MotherReader, that’s usually when I make my holiday new book to share list…after the holidays. Glad you enjoyed this one.