Albert's Thanksgiving - Hardcover

Tryon, Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689318650 ISBN 13: 9780689318658

Publisher: Atheneum, 1994

Synopsis

Albert the duck helps the animal children of Pleasant Valley School prepare a Thanksgiving feast

About this title

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 1-Albert, the taciturn, always helpful goose, and the children of Pleasant Valley plant and tend a garden to be harvested for the Thanksgiving Feast. However, Patsy Pig, President of the PTA, repeatedly sends Albert notes soliciting his help to build a table, fold paper turkeys, and other such tasks, including baking pumpkin pizza for the feast, completely interrupting the harvest. Pushed to his limits, Albert leaves Patsy a note stating, "Glad to help. But did anyone think of the vegetables?" Then, even Patsy reports to the garden to help, and it is a wonderful Thanksgiving after all. Patsy's hand-printed notes (courteous, polite, and presumptive), which comprise most of the text, are followed by watercolor and pen-and-ink pictures of Albert completing the current tasks. Luscious, full-page illustrations depict the garden and school scenes and other action. In the final joyous scene celebrating helpfulness, cooperation, and community spirit, the animals are arrayed in traditional (though perhaps not historically accurate or politically correct) Pilgrim and Indian costumes as they share the fruits of their labors. A charming story and an appealing presentation.
Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libraries, NE
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Ages 5-7. Albert, the hardest-working duck in Pleasant Valley, is the number-one helper for the PTA-sponsored Thanksgiving feast. Patsy Pig keeps writing him notes about building tables, harvesting vegetables, and making pumpkin pizzas. Every time Albert finishes one task, along comes another note (reproduced as part of the pictures) from Patsy. The story itself may be more understandable to harried adults than to picture-book listeners, but they'll get the gist of it, and they'll certainly enjoy the artwork, some full page, some four to a page, expertly executed and filled with a cast of appealing animals looking especially spiffy when dressed in Thanksgiving garb. A recipe for pumpkin pizzas, which, thankfully, is more like pie, appears on the back cover. Ilene Cooper

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0689318650
• ISBN 13: 9780689318658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Tryon Leslie