An Asian American girl describes how her family uniquely celebrates a holiday. The narrator, who is Japanese American, begins promisingly: "I stepped onto the dusty driveway as soon as our car stopped and headed straight for the sounds of laughter and familiar smells." Within, the girl describes Obaachan′s (Grandmother′s) Japanese style house ("I saw her butsudan" and the reader can identify the object in the illustration when told that "the photograph of my late Ojiichan is in front of it"). The Thanksgiving table offers up turkey along with tsukemono; and Obaachan and her granddaughter readily surmount the language barrier. Ages 3-8.

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