pumpkins

Simple text introduces pumpkins and instructions are given for making a pumpkin tambourine.

Playing with concepts of size and scale, giant pumpkins decorate some of America's most famous landmarks and landscapes.

Working in her family's pumpkin patch every year, seventeen-year-old Jamie has dreamed of two things--dating co-worker Danny and being crowned Pumpkin Princess--but her beautiful and famous cousin Milan's visit may squash all of her hopes.

A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does.

While visiting her grandparents' farm, Sylvie Ann finds a fine large pumpkin for Halloween but it leads her a merry chase as it rolls faster and faster down the hill and into the barnyard.

A sister and brother plant and tend their own pumpkin patch so they will have jack-o-lanterns for Halloween.

Karen's father has given her the big responsibility of taking care of the pumpkin patch in the garden. Not only must she water and fertilize the pumpkins, but she must find homes for all of them so they won't be smashed on Mischief Night.

Photographs and simple text, in English and Spanish, present the fall pumpkin harvest and discuss what can be made from pumpkins, such as jack-o-lanterns and pies.

Illustrations and simple text that teaches about shapes through a story about buying and carving pumpkins.

Rhyming text and illustrations demonstrate how many pumpkins it takes to fill a wagon and how quickly they add up each time the number is doubled.