Illustrations and simple text teach about shapes through a story about buying and carving pumpkins, and includes activity pages that reinforce early-learning skills and focus on natural curiosity, naming numbers, shapes, and storytelling.
After Kate chooses a mutant glowing pumpkin for her jack-o'-lantern, she is shocked to find that her usually boring family has become a Halloween horror show.
While trick-or-treating on Halloween, Jack O'Lantern and friends are not afraid of a witch or even a monster, but when a small girl opens the door, they run away in fear.
When Homer puts his jack-o-lantern over his head like a helmet on the eve of Halloween, he gains access to a secret nocturnal meeting of the trees as they celebrate the arrival of the full moon.