'Twas the night before Thanksgiving
By: story and pictures by Dav Pilkey
Series: Scholastic bookshelf
Publisher: Scolastic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780439669375; 9781415620168
Copyright date: 1990
Subjects: Stories in rhyme; Juvenile fiction; Thanksgiving Day; Turkeys; Fiction
Description: School children on a field trip to Mack Nugget's farm save the lives of eight turkeys in this poem based on The Night Before Christmas. The incomparable Dav Pilkey adapts Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem to tell his wacky Thanksgiving tale. The day before Thanksgiving, eight boys and girls take a field trip to a turkey farm. They have fun playing with eight exuberant turkeys but are shocked to learn that Farmer Mack Nuggett plans to kill all the turkeys for Thanksgiving dinners. So the children decide to smuggle all the turkeys home, and all their Thanksgiving dinners become vegetarian this year. The turkeys' lives are saved!