Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Alligator Arrived with Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast by Crescent Dragonwagon, ill. Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey

Oh. Full credit goes to graphic novelist Ursula Murray Husted for today’s find. You know, we’ve done a lot of feast-adjacent picture books in conjunction with Thanksgiving in the past (Green Eggs with Ham, for example). But today’s book is a bit of an outlier in that respect. Aside from Cranberry Thanksgiving, I can’t think of the last time we did a legitimately Thanksgiving-themed picture book. Today we do our first Crescent Dragonwagon title (complete with a marvelous explanation of her name), our second Aruego/Dewey title (after Leo the Late Bloomer) and our latest abecedarian book. Will it pass muster? Only time will tell.

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Show Notes:

For the full and true story behind Crescent Dragonwagon’s name, read on here.

Interestingly, while there is no “V” food included, there are three “K”s.

Kate’s right. They really should have come in on one foot on rollerskates.

This is so odd. Up until we got to “M”, every sentence began with that letter. But around “M” they stop starting the sentences with the letters. Why???

Kate likes that there’s a wordless spread of all the animals admiring the quetzel’s tail, but I find it a bit odd. Shouldn’t this have been the “R” page?

The unicorn is friggin’ named “Uncle Umberto”?!? All is forgiven. No notes.

I’m convinced that this is a gay couple and that the whole reason they’re only named as Pig and Pig II is so that they can get away with that in 1987.

And yes. Tony really and truly did send me… sardines of my very own.

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