Summary
One of Horn Book 's Best Picture Books of 2011
When Pa brings a turkey poult home to fatten for Christmas dinner, he assures Ma that it will be no trouble since it can live in a box by the stove and eat table scraps--and just think of the money we'll save! But it's not quite so simple to raise a turkey in a tiny flat in a nineteenth-century New York City tenement. Can Pa and the children manage the willful and growing Alfred and keep the neighbors happy until Christmas? Pa finds a solution for every difficulty--until he encounters one that threatens to ruin Christmas completely. How the family joins together to solve this last difficulty makes for a very funny and satisfying holiday story.
Published Reviews
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Additional Information
| Subjects |
Families
-- New York (State)
-- New York
-- Juvenile fiction.
Apartment houses -- Juvenile fiction. Turkeys -- Juvenile fiction. Christmas stories. Family life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Apartment houses -- Fiction. Turkeys -- Fiction. Christmas -- Fiction. New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction. New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. |
| Publisher | New York :Farrar Straus Giroux,2011 |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Other Titles | Money we will save |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
"Margaret Ferguson Books." |
| Description |
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm |
| ISBN | 9780374350116 0374350116 |
| Other | Classic View |