Emma the witch, her many woodland friends, and her two witchy adversaries, Dolores and Lavinia, all return in this third picture-book devoted to their adventures. As Dolores and Lavinia mourn the coming and going of Halloween, a question from Emma reminds them of Thanksgiving. When they discover their house is still in disorder from the previous year's Thanksgiving, they trick Emma and friends into doing all the work of cleaning up, only to realize that they still don't have the holiday meal. Will they be able to trick Emma again, and steal her feast...?

Like Yuck! and Emma before it, I found Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving to be a humorously entertaining reading experience. Emma is a sympathetic heroine, and I appreciated the fact that Stevenson resists the urge to reform the perpetually nasty and duplicitous Dolores and Lavinia, who remain as dastardly as ever. This makes Emma and her animal friends' triumph over them all the sweeter! The story is told entirely through dialogue, and the illustrations, done in ink and watercolor, are structured like a comic-book, with panels and speech bubbles. I don't know that they are a personal favorite, from an aesthetic perspective, but they certainly are suited to the tone of the story. Recommended to anyone who has read and enjoyed other stories about Emma, and to anyone looking for humorous and witchy Thanksgiving tales for the picture-book set. ( )

K did not like the ending.

Sort of like Nightmare Before Christmas, but Thanksgiving instead of Christmas. Witches try to ruin Thanksgiving but fail due to the kindness of the others. Fun story to read out loud.