Happy pumpkin day! Or not? I read an article recently about the explosion of pumpkin-flavored products available to consumers, and it made me wonder if food marketing executives have finally gone over the edge with pumpkin promotions. How do you feel about it? Have you had your fill of pumpkins for 2021?
I have a solution: let’s talk turkey. In this case, turkey-themed picture books. There is something quite wonderful about fictional gobblers going to school, making friends and eating blackberries. My fondness for real turkeys blossomed several years ago when a neighbor brought two turkeys to his property. I had never lived next door to turkeys, so I had no idea how chatty they could be — not just with each other but anyone who cared to engage in conversation. They gobbled, I gobbled, and merrily did I chat with my fowl-mouthed friends.
Here’s to everything turkey!
- “How to Catch a Turkey” written by Adam Wallace, illustrated by Andy Elkerton.
A school play about Thanksgiving instills a case of stage fright in one of the play’s key characters — yes, you guessed it, a turkey. Will there be a curtain call for our feathered friend?
- “There Was a Turkey on the Farm” written and illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev.
At first glance, farm friends are difficult to come by for a lonely turkey. Hens — too busy; roosters — too loud; goats — those horns! But when the turkey ventures outside of the farm and meets a “friendly” fox, her barnyard companions come to her rescue.
