This is a book to read aloud to children when they first want to know why we have Thanksgiving Day. Children a little older may read it themselves.

The story tells of one family on the Mayflower, of their hardships on the voyage and during their first winter. It tells, too, of joy in the arrival of their new baby, of spring in their new home, of planting, harvest, and the giving of thanks.

ALICE DALGLIESH has written the text so that it carries something of the feeling of a great enterprise, something of the struggle for food and shelter—yet always keeps close to family life and so to the children reading it. HELEN SEWELL has kept the same spirit in her distinctive pictures which have much of the character of American primitive paintings.

From the dust jacket