The Minnie and Moo books are more for children to read on their own rather than doing a read aloud in the classroom. This chapter book was devoted to saving all the farms animals from possibly being Thanksgiving dinner. Each chapter, a different animal came up to Minnie and Moo begging for their help to hide them. By the end of the story, all of the animals were up in the tree when the farmers went to eat their dinner. One of the characters called it "The Thanksgiving Tree" because all the animals fell from it. The family was about to eat a tofu shaped turkey and they were happy regardless of what they were eating. The book teaches you to be thankful and to appreciate the world around you. ( )

I really enjoyed this book. Compared to the other Minnie and Moo book previously read this book was more entertaining and enjoyable to read. The thing I liked most about this book would be the plot. Even though the plot wasn't believable because animals can't talk and most of the animals in this book cannot climb an oak tree i thought the plot was playful, and it was teaching the reader about an important holiday. Thanksgiving was the big idea of this book. The author was descriptive in trying to get the reader to believe that animals know about thanksgiving, and that they are scared so they hide. It pushes the readers to think about someone other than themselves on thanksgiving day because if we do think about it, we are eating animals on thanksgiving day and they do not want to be. The illustrations in the book were helpful to look at and created a useful picture to go along with what was being written in the story. Another big idea of of this book would also be friendship because the characters minnie and moo always find a way to help the other animals in the story to find a place to hide from the farmer and farmers wife so that they wouldn't be eaten on thanksgiving day.

Gr PreK – 2—This is a humorous tale of two creampuff-eating cows that help the turkeys hide in an oak tree to avoid ending up on the Thanksgiving menu. Fearful that they will be next, other farm animals arrive in succession and ask for Minnie and Moo’s assistance. Before long, they are all in the oak tree. In the end, the farmer and his family have a tofu turkey. ( )

Minnie and Moo vow to protect their two turkey friends, Zeke and Zack, from the farmer and his wife on the season's high-risk holiday. Zeke and Zack, however, have a few friends of their own...relatives, thirty-six of them. Hiding them in the old oak tree is one thing...hiding the chickens, the ducks, the geese, the pigs, the sheep, the Holsteins, and an ostrich is another...and another, and another, and... ( )