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The Thanksgiving Dinner Platter by Handler, Randa

By: Randa Handler
Narrated by: Susan McGurl
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The Thanksgiving Dinner Platter, by Randa Handler, explains when and why Thanksgiving became a national holiday.

It’s 1941, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt has just made Thanksgiving a national holiday in the United States. Takari‘s family is coming from near and far to celebrate together. While helping her mother prepare Thanksgiving dinner, 8-year-old Takari breaks a platter that belonged to her Japanese grandmother.

The platter had been an important part of her father’s family heritage, used traditionally by Takari’s grandmother to serve chestnut rice on the Japanese day of thanksgiving. Angry, her mother shoos her away, telling her to go visit her best friend, Little Sparrow, whose family is Native American.

He is making a special cornbread just like the one served at the first Thanksgiving dinner eaten by the pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians at Plymouth Plantation. In the process, Takari learns about the history of the holiday and that a similar day of gratitude, when people give thanks for their blessings, exists in many countries, including in her father’s homeland, Japan.

©2014 Randa Handler (P)2020 Randa Handler
Geography & Cultures Holidays & Celebrations Multicultural Stories United States Fiction Celebration Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving

I loved the fact that a holiday celebration was included in this book. That simple fact seemed to make this a very "real" story that could or possibly has happened in someone's life.

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Wonderfully written

I enjoyed reading this book very much. It was a lot of fun. I loved the characters. I love a book that makes me laugh.

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