Books About Pumpkins

Young trick-or-treaters can join one adorable monster as he picks out the best pumpkin to make a most spectacular jack-o'-lantern in this hauntingly sweet introduction to the most popular Halloween and autumn traditions. 

One pumpkin makes a tasty pie. Two pumpkins can be carved into grinning jack-o'-lanterns, and a couple hundred more make for a decent pumpkin patch. Gather one thousand pumpkins and you'll have a grand fall festival.
But what happens when a town has an accidental abundance of pumpkins?

Pumpkins come in all shapes and sizes some tall, some small, some dressed up like cowboys, or snowmen, or witches. Pumpkin Heads! is a beautiful Halloween treat that will inspire you to carve your own imaginative pumpkin head!

The seeds from a plump pumpkin grow into an army of roly-poly pumpkins. All it takes is a mighty wind to set them off on a tumble that wakes up a sleepy valley town with a rumbling, tumbling surprise. Full color.

This rhyming book shows a boy planting seeds step by step in order to grow pumpkins. By the fall, pumpkins large and small have grown in a row. What will the boy do with one of the pumpkins?

Rhyming text and glowing, full-color photos 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.

Erin and her parents buy two wonderful, round pumpkins and while she and her father carve one into a jack-o'-lantern, Mom prepares hers into pumpkin pie.

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A Halloween story with just the right amount of spookiness for preschoolers. "Trick or treat, pounding feet, jack o'lanterns line the street." It's Halloween night! The rising moon lights the way for trick-or-treaters and sets the mood for a spooky celebration where imagination rules.

Once there was a witch who longed for pumpkin pie. Unfortunately, the pumpkin she had grown from a seed became so big she simply couldn't get it off the vine. Although "she pulled and she tugged and she pulled...that pumpkin just sat."

Pumpkins can be baked in a pie or carved into jack-o'-lanterns, and pumpkin seeds can be roasted for a healthy snack. But how does a tiny seed turn into a big pumpkin? Full color.