Happy Turkey Day, y’all!  A day to eat large birds, stare at large balloons, and generally feel happy.  It’s not much of a post but I do have three little Thanksgiving links I’d love to share with you today.

This post is a year old but it’s just as cool as it ever was.  Over at Book Riot Ms. Cassandra Neace listed all the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons that could be conceivably based on children’s literature characters.  Anyone who can find an image of the Wild Thing balloon will have my undying love and approbation.

If you’re a teacher this will do you absolutely no good this late in the game, but in case you want to get a jump start on 2014, here’s A Short List of Thanksgiving Resources.

That said, I think it might be of even more use to teachers to read the recent American Indians in Children’s Literature post Taylor (5th grader): “Do you mean all those Thanksgiving worksheets we had to color every year with all those smiling Indians were wrong?”  

Great reading.  Required reading.

Finally, Danny Kaye.

Enjoy your family and friends, folks!