pumpkins

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.

Rabbit gives Pooh a pumpkin seed to plant, but when first a vine, then a flower appears, Pooh begins to wonder just what he is growing.

Simple text and pictures describe pumpkins as vegetables, including how they grow and how people enjoy them at Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Text and photographs describe the activities in a pumpkin patch, as pink-colored seeds become fat pumpkins, ready to be carved into jack-o'-lanterns.

Peter Peter and his wife Wanda, who grow pumpkins in a field outside their little hut, find an unusual solution to the problem of a leaky roof.

Little Nell chooses an unusual pumpkin for her Halloween jack-o-lantern, despite her big sisters' criticisms.

Rhyming text and photographs follow a pumpkin patch as it grows and changes, from seeds to plants to pumpkins ready to harvest, to jack-o-lanterns and then to seeds again.

Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow into a very large pumpkin, he carves it and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.