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misspippireads's review
5.0
A thanksgiving story about making dinner for the family. Everyone has their own part to bring the meal together. The illustrations are historical and warm. The text is set up in verses and fun to read. For storytime, I added ASL signs for the members in the family as well as the title of the book. As we read the story, on a family group page, we counted all the family members. Such a wonderful Thanksgiving story to share!
2016 storytime theme: thanks
Reviewed from a library copy.
2016 storytime theme: thanks
Reviewed from a library copy.
bookish_smorgasbord's review
4.0
Wonderfully detailed and homey illustrated paired with a young child's excitement over Thanksgiving preparation. Each new dish (mashed potatoes, pie, cranberries, cider, etc.) is accompanied by rhymes that repeat key phrases. A nice read-aloud for the upcoming holiday foodie season.
msgabbythelibrarian's review
4.0
This could definitely be a family favorite.
I relate to it in many ways--family working together to make a delicious meal happen! I love how it is told in rhyme, how everyone plays a part. It's written with much repetition as well which encourages children's involvement.
I think I want to add this one to my collection
I relate to it in many ways--family working together to make a delicious meal happen! I love how it is told in rhyme, how everyone plays a part. It's written with much repetition as well which encourages children's involvement.
I think I want to add this one to my collection
bbckprpl's review
3.0
Pat Zietlow Miller is also the author of another fall-ish book I just finished, Sharing The Bread, An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story, which is illustrated by Jill McElmurry. Here, we meet a whole family, hard at work on Thanksgiving Day, in a year closer to the 1800s than today, if the outfits, costumes, activities, & subtitle are anything to go by. Instead of offbeat, here, McElmurry's illustrations are much more understated and simple, and yet no less a compliment to the tone of the story. And Zietlow Miller's choices, which include a simple rhyme scheme (that hits right 8/10 times) that walks us through the tasks and roles of the young child's family on this Thanksgiving. I would say that - for a good portion of the book - the 'old-fashioned' doesn't keep it from being relatable: The thing about Thanksgiving meals, is that (even if we don't all eat the same food anymore) we all know the basics of what that meal is made up of - Turkey, potatoes, cranberries, pies, etc. Which makes having everybody pitching in on their own specialties much easier, since there's at least a common trope to play off of. The old-fashioned drawbacks come into play more when discussing things like cut out pilgrim hats or saying the family prayer, both of which would preclude my using this in a classroom, if I were still teaching, or with my own littles. Still: if those specific ideas fit your family's Thanksgiving celebrations, then I think you'll probably want to give Sharing the Bread a try, even though I'm giving it a 3.
pwbalto's review against another edition
4.0
Your next traditional Thanksgiving picture book. Reminiscent of Ox-Cart Man.
readingthroughtheages's review
4.0
When I think about Thanksgiving, I think about my extended family coming together, each bringing a delicious dish that will be shared and passed and enjoyed by everyone.
Although this story is "an old-fashioned Thanksgiving story", I love that it reflects the things that I think about when I think about this holiday.
Although this story is "an old-fashioned Thanksgiving story", I love that it reflects the things that I think about when I think about this holiday.
muddypuddle's review
4.0
I love to check out the new holiday picture book offerings - especially Thanksgiving, which has become so over-shadowed by Christmas and Black Friday! So it was fun to peek at this new picture book today.
Sharing the Bread is set in the late 19th century, is simple and sweet, with lovely rhyming, rhythmic verses. Everyone in the family has a job to do in preparation for the meal. The only religious overtones are at the end when the double-page spread depicts the entire family holding hands around the table. "Fold. Shout. Sit. Pray. All together on this day." A lovely book.
Sharing the Bread is set in the late 19th century, is simple and sweet, with lovely rhyming, rhythmic verses. Everyone in the family has a job to do in preparation for the meal. The only religious overtones are at the end when the double-page spread depicts the entire family holding hands around the table. "Fold. Shout. Sit. Pray. All together on this day." A lovely book.
jennybeastie's review
4.0
Wow, great, great rhymes and repetition, and a really sweet story too. Accurately advertised as old-fashioned -- prayer and pilgrim hats and an old, wood burning stove. Hits all my nostalgia for New England buttons.