Every year a family and their friends gather in the woods to celebrate Thanksgiving among the trees. Everyone brings something to share and the day becomes a long celebration of family, faith, and friendship. Told in a gentle, lyrical style, this picture book includes warm illustrations of people gathered around bonfires and long tables adorned with candles and food, singing songs and sharing laughter. Thanksgiving in the Woods is based on the true story of a family in upstate New York that has hosted an outdoor Thanksgiving feast in the woods on their farm for over twenty years.
“A heart-warming autobiographical story of the kind of Thanksgiving that families and the planet can share with equal pleasure. Sure to find a home on every Thanksgiving-lover's holiday shelf.”
~Jane Yolen, author of Owl Moon and the How Do Dinosaurs series.
Thanksgiving in the Woods on Storytime with Summer
In this episode of Storytime with Summer, Summer reads Thanksgiving in the Woods. Written by Minnesota children’s author Phyllis Alsdurf and illustrated by Jenny Lovlie, Thanksgiving in the Woods celebrates the true meaning of sharing a meal with others, singing songs, and sharing laughter around a bonfire.