The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh

The nephew gave this 2 stars and the niece gave it 2 stars as she thought some of the details were interesting, but mostly it bored us. Unless its funny or something special, the nephew especially doesn’t like a whole lot of words and a long story. This was not a popular book in our house. The story is long with several pages with no pictures and all words. It’s the Thanksgiving story, simple as that. I mean, I know it’s why we are here today, but I feel there can be a recognition that they were invaders and they took land. It also didn’t have any acknowledgement of these people invading someone else’s land.

I didn’t know or remember that there started out 2 boats, the speedwell, got a leak and had to turn back right as they left the bay. I was going to give this book 2 stars, but it mostly focuses on the journey over here on the ‘Mayflower’. This was revealed in letters published in 'Grumbles from the Grave' by Virginia Heinlein. The writer Robert Heinlein and Dalgliesh, Heinlein's editor at Scribner's, had conflict in the 1950s. Among her books are Newbery Honor books The Silver Pencil (1944), The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (1952), and The Courage of Sarah Noble (1954). She received a BA from Columbia University and taught at elementary schools for a while before writing her first book, A Happy School Year, in 1924. In addition to her book reviews for such magazines as Saturday Review of Literature and Parents' Magazine, Dalgliesh wrote more than forty books for children (most illustrated by Katherine Milhous) and about children's literature.

From 1934 to 1960 she served as children's book editor for Charles Scribner's Sons. citizen died in Woodbury, CT daughter of John and Alice (Haynes) Dalgliesh.Įducator, editor, book reviewer, and author, Dalgliesh was an elementary school teacher for nearly seventeen years, and later taught a course in children's literature at Columbia University.

Family: Born in Trinidad, British West Indies naturalized U.S.

The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh