Thanksgiving Is Here! Reviews

by Diane Goode

You're not buying this one for the kind words about going to grandma's house for turkey. You're buying it for the mad scramble of relatives depicted in all their quibbling, gossiping, nosy glory. Kids dive bomb the table, lovers woo, old ladies quarrel and the older men try to catch a few zzzz ... all rendered with a delicious eye for detail.

Set at roughly the turn of the last century, Goode's given it a timeless feel with send-ups of family stereotypes, each with a storyline that threads through the crowded illustrations. Nobody's left out, not the family bookworm or the screetchy...