Over the River and Through the Wood/a Song for Thanksgiving

Child, Lydia Maria Francis

ISBN 10: 0060213043 ISBN 13: 9780060213046

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

Synopsis

Merry illustrations revitalize a favorite holiday song, as a family journeys to their grandparents' house for Thanksgiving while the holiday feast is prepared, in a joyful celebration that includes a guitar and piano arrangement.

About this title

About the Author:

Lydia Marie Child (1802-1880) was a celebrated American author, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. Born in Medford, MA, her grandfather's house still stands near the Mystic River as a tangible reminder of her most memorable poem.

From School Library Journal:

PreS - Grade 2-- This attractive new presentation of Child's 1844 poem,"A Boy's Thanksgiving Day," offers 13 full-page watercolors done in a detailed and delicately primitive style. As befits this style, the figures are somewhat stiff, and the overall effect is static. The colors are pleasingly light and clear. The childlike illustrations are in keeping with the unsophisticated nature of the rhyming text. Unlike the version illustrated with lively energy by Brinton Turkle (Coward, 1974), only 6 of the 12 verses are included, a streamlining that modern preschool and primary-grade teachers may well appreciate. The text is placed unobtrusively in the sky or on the snow-covered ground, and probably sings better than it reads. A piano arrangement of the familiar melody, a traditional French folk tune, is placed after the text. Child's time-honored poem successfully evokes the happy mood of a traditional and idealized family holiday gathering. --Cynthia Bishop, Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, NY
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0060213043
• ISBN 13: 9780060213046
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Westcott Nadine Bernard