A National Book Award finalist teams up with a celebrated illustrator to tell the story of Sarah Hale, who in the 1800s began a letter-writing campaign to designate a day to celebrate the Pilgrims\' arrival in America.
This story is a tribute to Hale, her fellow campaigners, and to the amendable government that affords citizens the power to make the world a better place.
He signed the Thanksgiving Proclamation that very year, declaring it a national holiday.
This is an inspirational, historical, all-out boisterous tale about perseverance and belief: In 1863 Hale\'s thirty-five years of petitioning and orations got Abraham Lincoln thinking.
And so one invincible lady editor name Sarah Hale took it upon herself to rewrite the recipe for Thanksgiving as we know it today.
None of the presidents nor Congress sought to revive the holiday.
But by the 1800s America\'s observance was waning.
From the author of Speak and Fever, 1793 , comes the never-before-told tale of Sarah Josepha Hale, the extraordinary lady editor who made Thanksgiving a national holiday Thanksgiving might have started with a jubilant feast on Plymouth\'s shore.
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A National Book Award finalist teams up with a celebrated illustrator to tell the story of Sarah Hale, who in the 1800s began a letter-writing campaign to designate a day to celebrate the Pilgrims\' arrival in America
