Scan barcode
megatsunami's review
4.0
Really enjoyed this description of the Narragansett harvest celebration which may have contributed to the first Thanksgiving. In poetic language with a nice rhythm to it, the book describes the traditional celebration. My young child likes the repeated "Nickommoh!" on every page. Fabulous illustrations.
I wished for:
- a pronunciation guide (glossary is great but no idea if I'm saying things correctly!)
- an explicit connection to the first Thanksgiving celebration. This book is really great in its own right, so maybe it's unfair to ask for this (does every book really have to have something about white people?) but at the same time it is billed as a Thanksgiving-related book and I was hoping to use it to round out my child's understanding of the holiday's history. Since there wasn't much of an explicit connection I felt she enjoyed the book but didn't relate it to the holiday at all.
I wished for:
- a pronunciation guide (glossary is great but no idea if I'm saying things correctly!)
- an explicit connection to the first Thanksgiving celebration. This book is really great in its own right, so maybe it's unfair to ask for this (does every book really have to have something about white people?) but at the same time it is billed as a Thanksgiving-related book and I was hoping to use it to round out my child's understanding of the holiday's history. Since there wasn't much of an explicit connection I felt she enjoyed the book but didn't relate it to the holiday at all.
wordnerd153's review
3.0
Interesting and informative. I wish it had been written and illustrated by indigenous people.
More...