pumpkins

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

Full-color photographs and text follows the life cycle of a pumpkin seed, from germination to flower to a fully developed melon, which are often carved for Halloween decorations or made into pumpkin pie.

Two mice, each without the other's knowledge, help a pumpkin grow into "the biggest pumpkin ever"--but for different purposes.

"While vacationing at Skull Castle Geronimo stumbles on a mystery. A ghost cat is threatening the special pumpkins that grow in the Von Cacklefurs' garden! Can Geronimo find out who wants to steal the pumpkins?"-- Provided by publisher.

A stemless pumpkin that yearns to be a Halloween jack-o-lantern watches sadly as all of the other pumpkins in the shop are chosen.

"Twin dragons Ella and Owen, lost in a swamp, meet a pumpkin king who offers to help only if they will retrieve his body from the witch who stole it"--Provided by publisher.

"Scooby and the gang are decorating a haunted house for Halloween. But when something spooky happens to the pumpkins, they wonder if the house is really haunted"--Publisher.

Christopher Columbus sails to the New World and returns home with seeds that grow into a marvelous plant.

Rhyming text describes the different shapes and sizes of various pumpkins and notes what they might become--including pies, scarecrow heads, and jack-o-lanterns--once they leave the patch.

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.