Thank you, Sarah : the woman who saved Thanksgiving / Laurie Halse Anderson ; [illustrated by] Matt Faulkner.
Material type:
TextCopyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0689847874
- 9780689847875
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 394.2649 A547 | Available | 33111011210297 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the author of Speak and Fever, 1793 , comes the never-before-told tale of Sarah Josepha Hale, the extraordinary "lady editor" who made Thanksgiving a national holiday!
Thanksgiving might have started with a jubilant feast on Plymouth's shore. But by the 1800s America's observance was waning. None of the presidents nor Congress sought to revive the holiday. And so one invincible "lady editor" name Sarah Hale took it upon herself to rewrite the recipe for Thanksgiving as we know it today. This is an inspirational, historical, all-out boisterous tale about perseverance and belief: In 1863 Hale's thirty-five years of petitioning and orations got Abraham Lincoln thinking. He signed the Thanksgiving Proclamation that very year, declaring it a national holiday. This story is a tribute to Hale, her fellow campaigners, and to the amendable government that affords citizens the power to make the world a better place!
Includes bibliographical references.
Relates how Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national holiday.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning LG 3.7 0.5.
Accelerated Reader 3.7.
Reading Counts! 2.8.