From: chrys rudnik <crudnik>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 20:45:46

Fat Chance Thanksgiving by Patricia Lakin and illustrated by Stacey Schuett was a winner with a fifth grade class I visited during Children's Book Week. Lakin has told a touching story of a girl and her mother who lost everything in a fire except the girl's book A Pilgrim Thanksgiving. Carla begins to visualize herself at the first Thanksgiving and transfers that to her moving into a small apartment around Thanksgiving time. Lak in weaves a story around people getting to know each other, bringing people together as community when they had been isolated from each other, sharing of cultures and ethnic foods. The illustrations are bright. I had been looking for a good Thanksgiving story without much success when I came upon this one. The children, too, thought it was timely.


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