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A pioneer Thanksgiving : a story of harvest celebrations in 1841  Cover Image Book Book

A pioneer Thanksgiving : a story of harvest celebrations in 1841

Greenwood, Barbara 1940- (author.). Collins, Heather, (illustrations.).

Summary: Tells the story of what Thanksgiving was like for the Robertsons, a pioneer family living on a backwoods farm in 1841.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781550745740 (softcover)
  • ISBN: 9781550747447 (bound)
  • ISBN: 1550747444 (bound)
  • ISBN: 1550745743 (softcover)
  • ISBN: 9781550745740
  • ISBN: 1550745743 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9781550747447 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    48 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Kids Can Press, c1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Sequel to: A pioneer story.
Formatted Contents Note: Cranberries -- Harvest home -- Getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner -- Making cranberry sauce -- Nutting -- Playing conkers -- Giving thanks to Mother Earth -- Peach-stone game -- The wild harvest -- Festival bread -- The corn dolly -- Harvest superstitions -- Making a corn dolly -- The hungry year -- Watching the weather -- Making a weather vane -- Gathering at the table -- The Thanksgiving table -- Grace before meat -- Thanksgiving then and now.
Target Audience Note:
"Ages 8 to 12"--Front flap of jacket.
Subject: Harvest festivals -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Thanksgiving Day -- Juvenile literature
Harvest festivals -- Canada -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Thanksgiving Day -- History -- Juvenile literature
Harvest festivals -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Harvest festivals -- Canada -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Thanksgiving Day -- History -- Juvenile literature
Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Canada -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
Canada -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Valemount Public Library jnf 394.2649 gre thank (Text) 35194014096598 Junior non-fiction Volume hold Available -

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