Old-fashioned or not, you’ll enjoy reading this delightful tale with your family.Īdd this book to your collection: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving The Barrett family has much to be thankful for- their family and friends, good health, and love and laughter. The entire family savors the delicious dinner, despite its few shortcomings, and praise Tilly and her siblings for pulling off a Thanksgiving they will always remember. Barrett returns with cousins and aunts and uncles in tow and the happy news that their Grandma is well. Wielding axes and rifles out the door, the boys are shocked to find Tilly’s sweetheart in disguise. As her little sister Prue is prettily setting the table, her brothers discover a bear coming toward the house. Tilly undertakes this colossal challenge with confidence and the help of her siblings, but fails to pay attention when stuffing the turkey with catnip and neglects to add sugar and salt to the plum pudding. She puts her eldest daughter Tilly in charge of cooking the feast in her absence.

Barrett is called away suddenly to attend to her ailing mother. When the good-natured Barrett family are beginning to make preparations for their Thanksgiving celebration, Mrs. Her short story An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving is a heartwarming selection for the holiday season. What to expect: Thanksgiving, Fall, Family, TraditionĪlthough Transcendentalist author Louisa May Alcott is primarily known as the creator of Jo March, the determined heroine in her classic novel Little Women, she penned over thirty books in her lifetime. Publisher: Ideals Children’s Books (2010) Published: NovemAn Old-Fashioned Thanksgivingīy Louisa May Alcott (Author), Jody Wheeler (Illustrator) By Nicki Richesin, The Children’s Book Review

An old fashioned thanksgiving book