’Twas the Night Before

Thanksgiving

Author/ Illustrator: Day Pilkey

Publisher/Date: Scholastic, INC. December 01, 2004

Age range/class level:Grades 1-2

Illustrations & Design: Sketched Drawings

Genre: Fiction

Theme(s): Empathy, Sharing, Blessings, and Compassion

Characters: The Children, Farmer Mack, and Turkey’s

Summary: 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 our Thanksgiving
dinners. So, the children decide that they must
 act quickly and smuggle all the turkeys home.
And everyones Thanksgiving dinners become
vegetarian this year, as all of the turkeys' lives
were saved.

Textual Components:

• Watercolor Ink Illustrations

Classroom Connections:

• Writing

• History - Thanksgiving