Albert’s Thanksgiving

ALBERT’S THANKSGIVING by LESLIE TRYON, Illustrated by LESLIE TRYON

Reviews From Booklist August 19, 1994 Ages 5-7. Albert, the hardest-working duck in Pleasant Valley, is the number-one helper for the PTA-sponsored Thanksgiving feast. Patsy Pig keeps writing him notes about building tables, harvesting vegetables, and making pumpkin pizzas. Every time Albert finishes one task, along comes another note (reproduced as part of the pictures) from Patsy. The story itself may be more understandable to harried adults than to picture-book listeners, but they’ll get the gist of it, and they’ll certainly enjoy the artwork, some full page, some four to a page, expertly executed and filled with a cast of appealing animals looking especially spiffy when dressed in Thanksgiving garb. A recipe for pumpkin pizzas, which, thankfully, is more like pie, appears on the back cover. Ilene Cooper Copyright© 1994, American Library Association. All rights reserved From Horn Book Albert, the amicable goose that has appeared in previous picture books, assists the children of the local school and their parents in preparations for a Thanksgiving feast. The text, presented in epistolary form, is effectively balanced and enhanced by watercolor and ink illustrations. -- Copyright © 1995 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.