Thank you, Sarah: The Woman who Saved Thanksgiving

Title: Thank you, Sarah: The Woman who Saved Thanksgiving

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

Illustrator: Matt Faulkner

                Sometimes, we think of the first Thanksgiving and think that Thanksgiving just happened every year since then. Actually, that is not how it happened. This book explains more of the history behind Thanksgiving becoming a national holiday. Thanksgivings were mostly celebrated in the New England states, but Sarah Hale loved Thanksgiving and thought that it should be a national holiday. She lobbied four different Presidents to declare it a national holiday. It was until the country was in the middle of the Civil War when Abraham Lincoln like the idea of a national holiday concerning thankfulness. Every Thanksgiving we read about the first Thanksgiving, and this is a great new book with a new perspective on Thanksgiving! It’s sure to become a favorite.