cover image P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet

P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet

Carol Crane. Gale Cengage, $14.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-1-58536-134-2

The picture book P Is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet by Carol Crane, illus. by Helle Urban, offers informative ABCs in quatrain form: A is for the Atlantic Ocean, traveled by those ""praying to be free""; B stands for the Bill of Rights, inspired in part by the Mayflower Contract; C for the ""cache of Corn"" taken by Pilgrims ""from the Indian field."" The short history lessons that supplement each quatrain, however, suggest use in a classroom setting more than as a child's personal reading.