Lorna Balian created Pixar before Pixar did. Absolutely adorable. ( )

Old Mrs. Gumm finds a turkey egg in the forest and takes it home, with the intent of hatching it and having a fine Thanksgiving dinner in the fall. The turkey hatches, eats everything in sight over the months, and grows and grows, and Mrs. Gumm just imagines the fine dinner she will have. Thanksgiving arrives and with it all the preparations. Mrs. Gumm heads out with the hatchet to prepare the fat turkey...but in the end the turkey sits down to dinner with Mrs Gumm and her cat. After all, "imagine" how much bigger and plumper he'll be next Thanksgiving!

I'm not sure if all copies are like this, but mine had a very limited color palatte - just line drawings with some brown and white color washes. It's a very fun story with cute grotesque illustrations, but it definitely would have benefitted from colorization. Oh well.

Little old Mrs. Gumm finds a turkey egg, hatches it, fattens it up, and then invites it to the Thanksgiving table. All the humor of the story comes from the end, when it's revealed that she's not going to eat the turkey . . . this year. ( )