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A Turkey for Thanksgiving Book & Cassette (Read Along Book & Cassette) Review
User Submitted A Turkey for Thanksgiving Book & Cassette (Read Along Book & Cassette) ReviewsDecember 22, 2008 A Turkey For Thanksgiving This book is a wonderful book for any age. The pictures are well drawn and the story is funny. I love the line "Turkey runs faster." I would recommend this book to anyone. November 1, 2008 Good Concept, Major Missteps As a vegan mom, I was hoping this book would be a good animal-friendly addition to our Thanksgiving library. While the story's premise, of inviting a turkey as a guest to a feast, is a sweet one, the execution was poorly thought out and anything but animal-friendly. Mr. Moose attempts to placate his wife by bringing a turkey to their feast. The author builds in suspense as Moose's friends join in the search. They find a turkey, hidden away in his nest, and proceed to chase him. The turkey trips and in one particularly disturbing page, Mr. Moose pins the fallen, terrified turkey's head to the ground with his boot and then proceeds to carry him frightened and unwilling back to the Moose residence. Turkey takes it all rather well when it is revealed in a big "Surprise!" ending that the meal is vegan and that he's a guest along with the animals who spent the morning hunting him down and kidnapping him. Strange mixed message, particularly with the boot to the head illustration and text, that seems less like friendship and more like practical joke gone wrong. (Sorta like, "Oh! Haha! Did you think we meant to murder you? That boot thing was just for dramatic effect. Didn't you realize that? How hilarious!") For a truly heartwarming Thanksgiving tale, I suggest Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving (Bookshelf), where a group of school children befriend and save turkeys from slaughter or the earth reverent Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message (Reading Rainbow Book). August 8, 2007 The Way Thanksgiving Ought To Be I read this book years ago and now finally bought it. Now I can read it to my Preschool class this year. I think it is very sweet. Obviously the point is to make the reader think that Mr. Moose and his friends are getting a turkey to eat for Thanksgiving dinner. In actuality they insist the turkey come with them because Mr. Moose promised his wife a turkey for Thanksgiving ("Like everyone else"---so sad it's the norm). Happily the turkey discovers he's a guest for a vegan dinner rather than the maincourse! It's great book to teach compassion for animals and to encourage both out-of-the-box thinking and a meat free diet! Save a turkey this year, eat veggies instead! Adopt a turkey and save a life. You don't need all those added hormones in your body anyway. December 3, 2005 Do not buy this book A really, really bad story. A turkey is chased out of his home and hunted down through the woods. Here is a sample: "Turkey's legs bent in the middle as he fell. Mr.Moose put a booted hoof on his head and smiled..."I hope you don't have other plans for Thanksgiving, Turkey...My wife won't mind that you're too fat". The Turkey is than dragged back to Moose's house, where...SURPRISE!!, it turnes out he is a guest, not dinner. Is that supposed to be heartwarming?! My four year old daughter who loves books, had a strange look on her face when I read this book to her (once), and then asked to please not read it to her again!! I won't. It went straight to the recycling bin. December 1, 2001 Ms. Wirey's Class Book Review This book is about Thanksgiving. We all thought that this book was really funny. We learned that having friends is good. Our class learned some new words. The book told us what happens at Thanksgiving. Everyone one should read this good book. October 31, 2001 This delightful book evokes the true spirit of Thanksgiving! When selecting books for our children, I try to pick stories that will hold their attention, provide an important message, and involve animals and/or nature. Eve Bunting’s book A Turkey For Thanksgiving has all of these criteria - and more! It is also a good book for children who are vegetarians or vegans. In A Turkey For Thanksgiving Mrs. Moose is preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for her and Mr. Moose’s animal friends. However, this year she has decided that she wants a turkey for dinner so Mr. Moose, joined by his friends, sets off to find one. Eventually a turkey is found by the river and brought back for dinner. The terrified turkey is delighted, and relieved, to learn that he isn’t the main course, but a guest at this vegetarian feast! This delightful book evokes the true spirit of Thanksgiving. –Reviewed by Glenn Perrett October 22, 2001 A surprising and heart-warming end! Mr. Moose wants to make his wife happy by finding her a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. All the guests join in to look for the bird. The poor turkey is so afraid that he is reluctent to go with them. He (and we readers) find out in the end that they don't want him to be ON the table. Instead they want him to be AT the table to celebrate the holiday with them together. I like this book because its surprising and heart-warming ending. When I was told that TURKEY is a symbol of Thanksgiving, I used to think "Of course, turkey is the main dish in our Thanksgiving dinner". Now I have discovered the new meaning of Thanksgiving. October 12, 2000 We loved it! My children and I loved it! Even our 11 month old sat still for it! Well, with the exception of trying to grab at the illustrations! It did make me feel kind of guilty about eating turkey.......but not THAT guilty, we'll still be having it at Thanksgiving! I would think that vegetarians would love this book! Anyway, the book is adorable and our children and we are so glad to have it as a part of our home library! September 22, 2000 Very cute story My daycare kids enjoyed this story totally. They were surprised by the ending and cheered! It teaches them to be kind to one another always. But personally I'm still going to eat turkey at Thanksgiving just like any other year. August 16, 2000 low quality illustrations/worse story Our family are vegetarian...I bought this book for my 3 and 6 yr.olds. I was disappointed with this book and do not recomend it. Mrs. Moose wants a Turkey for Thanksgiving "like everyone else" and Mr. Moose goes out to get her one. He finds a terrified turkey hiding and forces him to come home with him. (I believe this is called kidnapping) The turkey is sure that he is going to be dinner for most of the story, only to be told differently at the very end. Then he is suddenly happy and grateful to be invited to dinner. (Yeah,right) My children did not enjoy this story at all and neither did I. For more A Turkey for Thanksgiving Book & Cassette (Read Along Book & Cassette) reviews click here.
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