jack-o-lanterns

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The perky little pumpkin

a Halloween story
1990
A feisty little pumpkin achieves his goal of being made into a jack-o'-lantern at Halloween and seeks to scare the costumed revelers around him.

Pumpkin fever

2012
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.

Extreme pumpkin carving

Provides color photographs and step-by-step instructions for carving twenty intricate designs on pumpkins.

Howl-a-ween

1995
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.

Pumpkin shivaree

2003
A pumpkin tells its life story, from seed to flower to jack-o-lantern and back to seed again.

Halloween jack-o'-lanterns

2010
Describes the origin of Halloween and the meaning behind jack-o-lanterns connected to the holiday, and discusses the cultivation and uses of pumpkins.

Spike at Halloween

2002
Spike the dinosaur finds challenges at Halloween when he tries to decide on a costume and when he helps his brother make a jack-o'-lantern.

Jack O'Lantern's scary Halloween

1993
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.

Pumpkin painting

2001
A guide to painting pumpkins for Halloween, featuring over seventy decorative designs for creating witches, mummies, pirates, and other characters.

An autumn tale

1988
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.

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