Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.

Questions and answers describe the voyage of the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's first year in the New World.

Written over a span of twenty years, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is the authoritative account of the founding of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts by its leader William Bradford. The journal, here translated into modern English by Harold Paget in 1920, was begun by Bradford in 1630 and tells the story of the Pilgrims from their 1608 settlement in the Dutch Republic in Europe, through their voyage in 1620 aboard the "Mayflower" to the New World, and...

Describes how the colonists aboard the Mayflower founded New Plymouth and celebrated their first harvest with a feast of thanksgiving.

A young pilgrim girl and the cat she discovers on the Mayflower voyage begin their life together in the Plymouth settlement. Her cat disappears the next summer, but when she reappears the reason for the absence becomes clear.

Text and photographs follow a six-year-old Pilgrim boy through a busy day during the spring harvest in 1627: doing chores, getting to know his Wampanoag Indian neighbors, and spending time with his family.

Examines the history and lore of Thanksgiving from A for "across the Atlantic Ocean" to Z for the "zeppelin-like" balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

David, a boy who thinks modern Thanksgivings are boring, imagines being at Plymouth Colony and celebrating the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.

Relates the history of Plymouth Rock since the Pilgrims first landed on it to the present day.

A large format version of the popular story about the first Thanksgiving.