[booknet booknumber= 9780547199450] Turkeys and Pilgrims are important, of course, but this book speaks to another aspect of modern-day Thanksgiving: the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade. Both text and illustrations are brilliant, and will give you a new appreciation for all those character balloons bobbing about on your TV screen!

Balloons over Broadway, by Melissa Sweet. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2011