While visiting a pumpkin farm, two friends learn all about pumpkins, how they grow, what they taste like, and why people make them into jack-o-lanterns.
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.
A pumpkin shimmering in the moonlight attracts the attention of an owl, a cat, crickets, a witch, and a group of boys and girls, who change it into a scary jack-o-lantern.
A group of children explore and enjoy nature's autumn bounty, including apples, raspberries, gourds, and pumpkins, on a day at a pumpkin patch; describes the parts of a pumpkin and how pumpkins grow.
In a variation on the story of the Little Red Hen, Tiny Tilda cannot get her sisters to help her plant a pumpkin seed, water and harvest it, or make it into a pie--so she does not share the fruit of her labor with them. Includes a recipe for pumpkin pie.
A child's great-great-grandmother's diary reveals the story behind a fallen elm tree, "rescued" pumpkins, and an unusual pig who saves the Cobtown Harvest Festival in 1845.
