Tells the story of how Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, campaigned for a national day of thanksgiving which was finally enacted by President Lincoln, and discusses the tradition of having the U.S. president grant a pardon to the turkey given him by the National Turkey Federation.
year: 2010
call number/section: 394.2, 394.26
subjects: holidays, thanksgiving day, juvenile literature, readers (elementary)
Editions
Sloate, Susan
Grosset & Dunlap (2010)
"Everyone knows the story of the Pilgrims, but there's more to Thanksgiving than that! This is the tale of one woman's fight for a national holiday and how the president came to pardon a turkey every year." -- cover [p. 4].
Schools: 3
Sloate, Susan
Tells the story of how Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, campaigned for a national day of thanksgiving which was finally enacted by President Lincoln, and discusses the tradition of having the U.S. president grant a pardon to the turkey given him by the National Turkey Federation.
Schools: 1