Over the River and Through the Wood: A Thanksgiving Poem

by Lydia Maria Child

For ages

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The first Thanksgiving may have taken place in the Seventeenth Century, but Thanksgiving was reborn as a national holiday in the Nineteenth Century - and here is its most famous ode. Originally published in an anthology for children in 1840, this lovely poem is a true classic and not to be missed. It takes you and your little ones back to a time when the way to grandfather's house for Thanksgiving was not via an airplane crammed with cranky passengers or a traffic-jammed highway but rather by sleigh "through white and drifted snow." Just imagine! But however different the times, we can still shout together "Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!"

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