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Article: America's Real First Thanksgiving.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
- Article from:
- Children's Bookwatch
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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America's REAL First Thanksgiving
Robyn Gioia
Pineapple Press, Inc.
PO Box 3889, Sarasota, FL 34230-3889
1561643890, $14.95 www.pineapple.com 1-800-746-3275
America's REAL First Thanksgiving is a picturebook about a feast shared by Spanish explorer Pedro Menendez and the Timucua Indians upon the founding of St. Augustine in what is now Florida. This shared exchange of food and gratitude took place on September 8, 1565, fifty-six years before the landmark Pilgrim celebration. "Why, you may ask, don't the history books record that ...