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Your Students Will Gobble Up These Books About Turkeys 

 

Clever turkeys star in these hilarious picture books for PreK-2.


October 17, 2022

Turkeys are more than just the main course of a holiday feast! In these stories, clever turkeys prove their worth as they outwit predators and befriend children. Your classroom will enjoy reading these picture books with wacky characters and colorful illustrations. 

These books are perfect for classroom read-alouds as kids in PreK-2 will root for the trouble-making — and trouble-escaping — triumphant turkeys. Try How to Catch a Turkey, a book about a turkey getting cast in a Thanksgiving play and running away because he suffers from stage fright! There’s also There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey — a quirky rhyming book about a lady gobbling up all sorts of things. Kids will be entertained by the funny shenanigans and learn key literacy skills like vocabulary. 

Shop books about turkeys below! You can find all books and resources at The Teacher Store.

Paperback Book

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey

Grades Pre-K - 2
$5.21$6.95
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The old lady is at it again, and this time she's swallowing a Turkey...she's always been quirky!

Paperback Book

How to Catch a Turkey

Grades Pre-K - 1
$3.71$4.95
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A turkey escapes before the big Thanksgiving Day play.

Board Book

Ten Fat Turkeys

Grades Pre-K
$5.24$6.99
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Young readers will gobble up this hilarious counting story about ten goofy turkeys roller-skating on a fence, doing a noodle dance, and more! 

Paperback Book

Turkey Tumble

Grades K - 1
$3.71$4.95
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It's harvest day! All through the wood, everyone helps to make the feast good. But two chatty turkeys aren't helping at all. What will happen when they start to fall?

From setting the table to sharing a meal with family, this book helps readers celebrate the joys of Thanksgiving. Theyll even learn a turkey's fondest Thanksgiving wish!

Paperback Book

Twas the Night before Thanksgiving

Grades 1 - 2
$4.13$5.50
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Dav Pilkey adapts the classic Christmas poem to tell his wacky Thanksgiving tale about a group of kids who save eight turkeys from a turkey farm.

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