Childeren's+Literature

=Children's Thanksgiving Literature =

[] > by Jake Swamp > by Ann McGovern > by Carol Crane > by Natasha Wing > by Cynthia Rylant [] > Winner of several prizes including the Jane Addams Picture Book Award, //This Land Is My Land// is a vibrant collection of very short essays about everything from the four buffalo spirits to the author's visit to New York. Illustrated with amazing and sometimes cryptic multi-media paintings by the author, this book challenges kids to find specific elements in the pictures as they read the texts below them. > An epic story in a slim cover, this picture book encompasses the entire history of Native American Peoples, from the time of Creation to the present day. The author, an Acoma, is a poet whose sentences capture the natural rhythms of traditional speech while remaining accessible to kids. //The People Shall Continue// is a great introduction to the peaceful beginnings of the many Peoples and the subsequent injustices they sustained.
 * [|Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message]
 * [|If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620]
 * [|P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet]
 * [|The Night Before Thanksgiving]
 * [|In November]
 * [[image:http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/images/favbks/native/bk_this.jpg width="120" height="157" caption="This Land is My Land"]] **//This Land Is My Land// — George Littlechild**
 * [[image:http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/images/favbks/native/bk_peopl.jpg width="140" height="155" caption="People Shall Continue"]] **//The People Shall Continue// — Simon J. Ortiz**