Book Description
A young boy watches as the seeds he plants in the garden grow into a riot of colorful pumpkins and squashes and are carved into jack-o'-lanterns with unique personalities.
Author : David Cavagnaro
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780684161099
A young boy watches as the seeds he plants in the garden grow into a riot of colorful pumpkins and squashes and are carved into jack-o'-lanterns with unique personalities.
Author : Ron Lightburn
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Harvest festivals
ISBN : 9781551097848
Every autumn, strange figures start appearing around Kentville, Nova Scotia. Sauntering down the sidewalk, sitting in a tree, cavorting on a lawn-who are these peculiar people?They're the Pumpkin People! Made of cornstalks, straw, and, of course, pumpkins, these folkloric figures arrive every year to celebrate the harvest in a most creative way. The immensely popular Pumpkin People tells the magical secrets of Kentville's famous residents. Sandra Lightburn's verse reveals the nighttime revelry of the half-funny, half-spooky figures; Ron Lightburn's colourful illustations bring their wild Ceilidhs to life. And a special section in the back teaches pumpkin fans young and old how to build their own pumpkin person!
Author : Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0785277226
Tells a parable in which the farmer turns a simple pumpkin into a glorious sight to illustrate that God wants His children to be full of light.
Author : Will Hubbell
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 080759315X
When his beloved jack-o'-lantern starts to decompose, Tim puts it outside and watches it transform from pumpkin—to seed—to pumpkin again. The first pumpkin Tim ever carved was fierce and funny, and he named it Jack. When Halloween was over and the pumpkin was beginning to rot, Tim set it out in the garden and throughout the weeks he watched it change. By spring, a plant began to grow! Will Hubbell's gentle story and beautifully detailed illustrations give an intimate look at the cycle of life.
Author : Cindy Ott
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0295804440
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.
Author : Rainbow Rowell
Publisher : First Second
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781626721623
In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award–winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender and hilarious story about two irresistible teens discovering what it means to leave behind a place—and a person—with no regrets. Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they’re reunited every September 1. But this Halloween is different—Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye. Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: What if—instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut—they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years . . . What if their last shift was an adventure?
Author : Charles Reasoner
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1479584991
In this board book with simple text, Jack-o'-lanterns appear through die-cut holes in different shapes.
Author : Dave Horowitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1524740845
Perfect for the changing seasons, this wacky twist on The Ugly Duckling is a great read for Halloween and Thanksgiving. The Ugly Pumpkin has waited all through October for someone to take him home, but no one wants him. He doesn't look like other pumpkins. So the lonely Ugly Pumpkin leaves the patch in search of a place where he'll fit in. By the time Thanksgiving arrives, he discovers the truth about who he is--but it's not what he expected!
Author : Cathleen Young
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1524767360
"Cathleen Young's characters will forever have a place in my heart." --Holly Goldberg Sloan, author of Counting by 7s Former best friends compete to see who can grow the biggest pumpkin and win the annual giant pumpkin race on the lake. A great pick for fans of Half a Chance and Gertie's Leap to Greatness. At the end of every summer, Madeline Island hosts its famous pumpkin race. All summer, adults and kids across the island grow giant, thousand-pound pumpkins, then hollow one out and paddle in it across the lake to the cheers of the entire town. Twelve-year-old Billie loves to win; she has a bulletin board overflowing with first-prize ribbons. Her best friend Sam doesn't care much about winning, or at least Billie didn't think so until last summer's race, when his pumpkin crashed into hers as she was about to cross the finish line and he won. This summer, Billie is determined to get revenge by growing the best and biggest pumpkin and beating Sam in the race. It's a tricky science to grow pumpkins, since weather, bugs, and critters can wipe out a crop. Then a surprise visit from a long-lost relative shakes things up, and Billie begins to see her family, and her bond with Sam, in a new way.
Author : Arthur Geisert
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781592702657
How does a small town in Iowa deal with an abundance of pumpkins, just as Halloween approaches?