The Money We'll Save

One of Horn Books 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 well save! But its 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.