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'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

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I am not a vegatarian, yet I love this book. It by no means ruins the Thanksgiving tradition, it only gives a comical view as to how a turkey might feel about Thanksgiving. I teach kindergarten and my class wants me to read this story over and over!

Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving follows the rhythm of Twas the Night Before Christmas, and this is definitely a book that should be read out loud. I'm sending this with my son to school so his teacher can read it to the class. I've told her about it, and she and the class are waiting for it! One of my favorite illustrations is where the children are hugging the happy little turkeys. (No, NOT a reality, but this is a CHILDREN'S book. We save a little reality for them later in Catcher In The Rye.) Also, I love the illustration of the children, suddenly turned all chubby, with turkey feathers sticking out from under their coats. Hmmm...

Maybe some of the naysayers of this book should stop and consider some old favorites. Snow White committed breaking and entering. Do they warn their children that they should not break into people's house and randomly clean, like Snow White? My goodness! We might have a nation of pint-sized bandits, compulsively cleaning stranger's houses...

And my eight year old son STILL does not like turkey at Thanksgiving, without reading Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. He likes the mashed potatoes and stuffing, no matter how much I try to hide the turkey with the mashed potatoes...

Dav Pilkey is such a wonderful writer/illustrator of children's books. You should definitely check out his website, www.davpilkey.com. Mr. Pilkey, by the way, was not vegetarian when he wrote this or trying to send any "hippie, liberal" message. He's just an adult-sized kid who writes an entertaining book.

This is one of my favorite of all children's books. It's silly and touching, a difficult combination to achieve. The words and the pictures are perfect together. It gets people in touch with that childlike side that remembers what it's like when we first make that connection between food and a living creature.

This book is great for kids to see where exactly their turkey dinner comes from! A lot of us take for granted that our food is just there - not what has to be done to get it there and this is a delightful story for young and old alike. It is truely the essence of being thankful for animals.

As vegetarians of a 4 year old, we have been looking for books and videos/dvd's on thanksgiving that put' much less focus on eating turkey. We have tried to raise our child as a thoughtful vegetarian. Meaning, we realize we are still very much in the minority and most everyone he knows eats meat. I don't want to program him in such as way where he his openly criticizing people eating meat. This entertaining book also creates thoughtful discussion of why we choose not to eat meat but also realizing most others do. Parts of the book may be a bit inappropriate for younger children as there is a farmer wielding an ax. BUT overall it's a good book with great illustrations.

My kids and I love this book. Written in the style of 'Twas the Night before Christmas...a group of school children are taken on a field trip. "When what with their wondering eyes should they see, but a miniature farm and eight tiny turkey."

A very sweet, non-violent story!

While I was in college, I read this book to a kindergarten class. The students thought it was very funny! However, they were not the only ones who enjoyed this silly story. My professor, my fellow classmate (and me too) as well as the other teachers in the room were thoroughly enjoying the book as much as the children. I loved the book so much that I just ordered for myself. This is a story to share with your own children!

`Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving Is about 8 hungry children with food as the only thing running through there minds. This book is amazingly funny, and the pictures are great! This wonderful book is defiantly for children or all ages. The setting of this book is in the afternoon, the day before Thanksgiving. The problem in this story is that when 8 kids arrive on a turkey farm on a field trip they have the best time. However, when they spot an ax, and asked what it was going to be used for. When the farmer told the children the horrible news of what it would be used for, they new they had to do something! So red this book to find out if the helpless turkeys will end up someone's Thanksgiving dinner, or if the kids are able to pull off saving their lives.

This is a very sweet, funny book, very much in the Dav Pilkey style. Be warned that if your child is very sensitive, you may not be able to get them to eat poultry after this!

This book was so cute and fun. It is a great, gentle book to read to young children on Thanksgiving. The way it rhymes like the story of "twas the night before christmas" is very well done and the images are very cute.
In this book the children go off on a Thanksgiving field trip to learn all about turkies.
This book is a friendly way for kids of all kinds on Thanksgiving.
My only disapoinment was that it I thought it was going to be longer!