Richard Scarry's The First Thanksgiving of Low Leaf Worm (Richard Scarry)

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Summary: The most accurate kid's book on T-giving that I have found..
Review: I am a historian and I have to say, while I might have passed this book up because of the cutesy characters and cover (although I have always loved Richard Scarry), it turns out this is the best young children's book on Thanksgiving that I have seen. I appreciated the accurate native American names and place names and the fact that the hardships - including the deaths of both English colonists and native Americans - are not sugar-coated or ignored. All the details are here about the Mayflower, native American life, the first winter for the colonists, and, of course, the Thanksgiving feast!
I have to point out that the age categorization for this as listed above is *wrong* - this is NOT a baby-preschooler book, as many other Scarry books are. I would say it is more of a K-3 book - while the illustrations are friendly and cute, the text is very detailed, with more advanced vocabulary, the subject matter driven more by the history than a concise "story," and an in-depth timeline of the Mayflower voyage is included. My 2nd grader is an independent reader and enjoys this book either with me or on his own, but it would not hold the attention of a preschooler.