📚🍂Gobble up these delightful stories that will have the whole family gathered around the table with books as the main course. From heartwarming tales to thrilling adventures, we’ve got something for everyone this Thanksgiving. 🦃📖

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• BOOKS FOR LITTLE KIDS

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• BOOKS FOR BIGGER KIDS READING INDEPENDENTLY

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• BOOKS FOR TWEENS/MIDDLE GRADE

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Tasty Treats for Fall Harvest!

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November 10 2023

Pesto Turkey Wrap Recipe by Shawn Stevenson

A healthy recipe with your leftover Thanksgiving turkey “There was a time in my life when I was legitimately wrapped up in making wraps. Some people have a ‘goth’ phase, I had a ‘wrapping every conceivable combination of foods up in a tortilla or collard leaf’ phase. Thankfully, all of the experimentation brought me to…

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September 7 2023

Pumpkin Spice Picture Books

Can you feel it? The slight shift in the air, the golden edges lining the leaves, the smell of cinnamon wafting out of coffee shops and bakeries…

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February 6 2023

Friendship Flower Gratitude Craft

Give a flower to a friend. The more grateful you are the more good feelings bloom! When it comes to practicing gratitude, it’s never too early to start! Naomi Shulman’s Give Thanks, with Hsingping Pan’s delightful illustrations, offers kids a collection of 50 uplifting activities and games, like this friendship flower, for spreading joy and happiness in…

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February 16 2020

Triple-Layer Pumpkin-Chocolate Pie

If you never imagined chocolate and pumpkin as great pie partners, this pie will surprise and delight you. Excerpted from Pie Academy © Ken Haedrich. Photo © Emulsion Studio. Triple-Layer Pumpkin-Chocolate Pie has a “plain” pumpkin pie layer, a chocolate-pumpkin layer, and a sweetened sour cream layer on top. It’s the one pie my wife, Bev, must…

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November 25 2019

Choose some Thanksgiving foods, get a book to read while you wait for the turkey in the oven!

  We all know that feel — waiting for the turkey to cook, impatiently awaiting that delicious meal. You’ve paced back and forth in front of the oven enough times to know that you need a distraction to keep you busy as you impatiently await the Thanksgiving meal. Well, why not read a book? Here…

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November 27 2019

Books to Read with Your Family to Show Them You’re Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you’re spending lots of time with loved ones and are enjoying the beautiful fall weather right now. After you’ve eaten your turkey and your dinner guests have gone home, finish the night with a picture book about gratitude. Books about being appreciative and grateful are welcome year round, but are especially…

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30 years of brain quest!

Stimulate the mind in a fun, approachable way. Celebrate 30 years of Brain Quest: check out the new look, new products, and new packaging with the same A+ content!

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