Minnie and Moo and the Thanksgiving Tree (Minnie and Moo (DK Hardcover))
It's Thanksgiving morning and Minnie and Moo, beloved bovines ofMinnie and Moo and the Musk of  ZorroandMinnie and Moo  Go to Paris, are sipping cocoa and eating cream puffs under an oak tree.  "We have so much to be thankful for," says Moo, "and yet I feel a sadness in the  air." Her reverie is interrupted by the appearance of Zeke and Zack, two turkeys  lurking in the tall grass nearby. "Hide us," they beg. Minnie and Moo direct  them (and their 36 suddenly materializing friends) up the oak tree, and the  floodgates open. It's the chickens next. "The food chain... get it? No turkey...  chicken is next," says the cocky rooster. Soon the chickens are up the tree, and  then a duck, six geese, two pigs, a flock of sheep, and an ostrich. When the  farmers finally arrive for their Thanksgiving picnic (with a tofu loaf shaped  like a turkey), they discover the first-ever Thanksgiving tree, which  mysteriously produces ostrich eggs and milk on demand. By the end of the day,  everyone has plenty to be thankful for, and no one on the food chain (except the  tofu) has been consumed.Denys Cazet's mischievous wit and droll watercolors are pure delight for readers  young and old. Minnie and Moo are magnets for comical misunderstandings. Page  after page, beginning readers will be happily pulled along on their silly  adventures. (Ages 5 to 8)--Emilie Coulter