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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005-01-10

Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving (Reprint)

Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving (Reprint)

Laurie Halse Anderson, Author

Matt Faulkner, Illustrator

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9780689851438

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A National Book Award finalist teams up with a celebrated illustrator to tell the story of Sarah Hale, who in the 1800s began a letter-writing campaign to designate a day to celebrate the Pilgrims' arrival in America. Full color.
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With wit and energy, this book celebrates Sarah Hale’s persistence in preserving a national tradition. More than a holiday story, it’s a tribute to the power of words, civic determination, and purposeful advocacy.

Keywords and Themes: Advocacy • Celebration • Conviction • Determination • Edu: Writing • Empowerment • Heritage • History • Holidays & Celebrations • Juvenile Nonfiction • Perseverance • Purpose • Thanksgiving • United States - 19th Century • Voice

Age Range • 5-8

Pages • 40

Subjects • Thanksgiving Day • History • United States • Social life and customs • Hale • Sarah Josepha Buell • Holidays

Categories • Juvenile Nonfiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Thanksgiving • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 19th Century

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!

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