The Money We'll Save

By Brock Cole

Book Overview

One of Horn Book 's Best Picture Books of 2011 When Pa brings a turkey poult home to fatten for Christmas dinner, he assures Ma that it will be no trouble since it can live in a box by the stove and eat table scraps--and just think of the money we'll save But it's not quite so simple to raise a turkey in a tiny flat in a nineteenth-century New York City tenement. Can Pa and the children manage the willful and growing Alfred and keep the neighbors happy until Christmas? Pa finds a solution for every difficulty--until he encounters one that threatens to ruin Christmas completely. How the family joins together to solve this last difficulty makes for a very funny and satisfying holiday story.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374350116
• ISBN13: 9780374350116
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3