Pumpkin Circle A Halloween Book for Kids and Toddlers
by Levenson, George; Thaler, ShmuelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-08-07
Publisher(s): Tricycle Press
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Summary
We can be sure of this: It's a circle without end. It'?s pumpkin seeds to pumpkins To pumpkin seeds again! This treat of a picture book comes cloaked in the colors of fall. Bouncy verse and glowing photographs show a backyard pumpkin patch move through its natural cycle -- a bug'?s eye and a bird's high view of seeds sprouting, flowers blooming, bees buzzing, pumpkins growing . . .and then going back to earth. An author's note explains how to grow your own pumpkin. Educators, please visit our Resources section, above, for teaching guides and curricula. Awards1999Parent'?s Guide AwardReviews"If you weren't a pumpkin lover before, you will be after checking this neat book out." -Fast Forwardmagazine "Eye-catching full-color photography and rhyming text. . . . An excellent choice for fall pumpkin studies."-Public Schools of North Carolina's Infotech"Your books will help us put an emphasis on early reading and help improve the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding farmers and agriculture."-American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture From the Hardcover edition.
Author Biography
SHMUEL THALER lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Bread lover GEORGE LEVENSON's films, which include the widely praised Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes, are available in most schools and libraries in North America. This story was inspired by the wheatgrass growing in his backyard in Santa Cruz, California.
From the Hardcover edition.
Bread lover GEORGE LEVENSON's films, which include the widely praised Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes, are available in most schools and libraries in North America. This story was inspired by the wheatgrass growing in his backyard in Santa Cruz, California.
From the Hardcover edition.
Excerpts
The pumpkin seed
Makes the pumpkin plant, and the
Pumpkin plant
Makes pumpkins
Deep within each pumpkin the air is damp and cool. The walls are lined with teardrop seeds, each one a slippery jewel.
Scrape them from their orange cave. Wash away squishy mush.
Save a few to grow next spring, and have a bunch to munch.
From the Hardcover edition.
Makes the pumpkin plant, and the
Pumpkin plant
Makes pumpkins
Deep within each pumpkin the air is damp and cool. The walls are lined with teardrop seeds, each one a slippery jewel.
Scrape them from their orange cave. Wash away squishy mush.
Save a few to grow next spring, and have a bunch to munch.
From the Hardcover edition.
Excerpted from Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson
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