When Gavin started Elementary School and started learning to read, I was a little sad once we started gravitating away from picture books. I had enjoyed reading and discovering new books for the past six years. Now what? Then I discovered how much fun it was to read chapter books together!
Provide seasonal books to encourage reading.
I grew up with a love for reading and want my kids to have that too. One of the ways I encourage them to read is to change out our reading nook with seasonal books. We have our own collection and we also love getting different ones from our local library.
Here are some great books we discovered when we started looking for Thanksgiving books. These chapter books are for early readers and geared toward elementary school children.
Thanksgiving Chapter Books for Early Readers
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Dr. Carbles is Losing His Marbles by Dan Gutman
Thanksgiving Turkey Trouble by Abby Klein
Mayflower Treasure Hunt by Ron Roy
November Nights by Ron Roy
Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne
Judy Moody and Stink: The Wishbone Wish by Megan McDonald
Junie B. Jones #28: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten by Barbara Park
Thanksgiving Thief by Carolyn Keene
Zack and the Turkey Attack! by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I hope you find this list helpful! We are looking forward to reading a lot of these over the next few weeks. We have already read Dr. Carbles is Losing His Marbles and Thanksgiving Turkey Trouble. They were both very entertaining and will definitely have you laughing out loud.
If you have any book recommendations for us, please feel free to let us know! I love to hear what other families enjoy reading and we are always looking for new books to add to our library list! 🙂
These are adorable. I will definitely be recommending to my friends with children.
Thanks Shannon!
Oh man! So many good books!! We love Junie B.Jones! I also really like the Nancy Drew and the Treehouse Club books!
Magic Treehouse has been one of our favorites for a couple of years now! I’m excited to read the Nancy Drew book since that was always one of my childhood favorites.
Oh thank you for this! We have the whole week of Thanksgiving off and I was just thinking that I needed to find a book or two to read with my 5 year old (he’s already reading!). I’ll take a look and pick one or two. Thanks!
-Mama from Mama Writes Reviews
That is awesome that your 5 year old is reading! 🙂 I hope he enjoys these!
I’m thankful my children love books! And I’ll have to add a couple of these to our collection.
It is such a blessing to see your children love to read! I hope they enjoy some of these!
I don’t think my niece and nephew are QUITE to chapter books yet, but I can’t wait. These are all great ideas. I think the Nancy Drew and Junie B. Jones titles look fun!!
-Lauren Becker
Those both do look like fun reads! I always loved Nancy Drew when I was growing up!
Love this list. I need to add some more holiday titles to our home library. Trying to get any from the public library is so hard during the season. We went 3 weeks in advance and there were only scraps left. lol!
Yes, our library tends to get picked over too. We are able to put books on hold online and they will let us know when they are ready. That seems to help!
I cant wait until my children are old enough for me to read chapter books to them! ESPECIALLY The Magic Tree House books! Those were one of my favorites as a kid!
My son love The Magic Tree House series as well. It is so much fun when you can start reading them together!
Great post. So many amazing books!
Thank you! We love finding great books!
Great list! My daughter is just getting into reading chapter books independently so this is a super helpful list, thanks!!
Thanks Marie! I hope she finds some that she likes!
My daughter loves the Magic Treehouse series. We will have to read that one this month!