Ingredients
A pair of reading glasses
Your favorite pen
Notebook of your choosing
Dash of time
Pinch of inspiration

Combine the dash of time with a pinch of inspiration and jot down a picture book idea using your favorite pen in a notebook of your choosing. Be sure to wear your glasses so you can read what you wrote later.

A. Potoma

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and there are plenty of literary offerings for the day. Here are a few of my favorites!

Set the Table

There’s nothing like a beautiful table setting. Forks and knives lined up like soldiers, the butter saucer and goblet sentinels by the top of the plate. These books are perfect inspiration for setting a table.

The Table Sets Itself by Ben Clanton

Our Table by Peter H. Reynolds

Give Thanks

With the world being topsy turvy and one day busier than the next, it’s easy to overlook the little things. There are so many things to be thankful for if we take the time to notice.

Those Shoes By Maribeth Boelts, Illustrated by Noah Z. Jones

Thanksgiving Poem by Marianne Knowles

Present the Turkey

Cold Turkey by Corey Rosen Schwartz and Kirsti Call

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard

Don’t Forget the Cranberry Sauce

It’s an annual tradition in my family to make the cranberry sauce and jar it for friends and family. Here is a recipe for homemade cranberry sauce to sweeten the day! Enjoy!

Ingredients
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp kosher salt
1 12- oz bag cranberries

Combine the sugar, orange juice, 1/2 cup water, the cinnamon, salt and cranberries in a medium saucepan. Bring up to a simmer over medium heat and cook for 15 minutes. Let cool completely before serving.

Bobby Deen

Feel free to add any of your favorite Thanksgiving titles to the Writers’ Rumpus!