Author: Anne Rockwell
Illustrator: Lizzy Rockwell
Format: Paperback
Published: HarperCollins, 1999

A young African American boy tells his parents what he has learned about Thanksgiving.  His class put on a play (He was the Mayflower!) that depicted how the Pilgrims arrived, met the Wampanoag (whose advice about hunting and farming helped the Pilgrims survive) and celebrated the harvest. Each memeber of the class imagines the things for which the Pilgrims, Chief Massasoit, Squanto, and others were thankful. The cheerful, informative text is accompanied by bright illustrations of the class play and the historical events that inspired it.