We Planted a Pumpkin
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Two children plant a pumpkin seed together and nurture the growing plant through the seasons. The plant flowers and a pumpkin forms, but will it change color and be ripe and ready to harvest for Halloween?
The children must be patient and respectful of their plant, but finally they get to enjoy the fruits of their labor at their Halloween party.
A rhyming and rhythmical text makes for a great read aloud.
This book is part of the In The Garden series, aiming to introduce very young children to the natural world and encourage a love of our environment.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a sweetly seasonal picture book from Ramsden, two young gardeners anguish over growing a pumpkin in time for Halloween. Starting with a packet of seeds, a brown-skinned child usually sporting overalls and a pale-skinned child generally clad in stripes attend a resultant plant across spring, summer, and fall. Shape-based forms and printmaking textures summon a stage-like backdrop against which the children cheer ("Go, seed, go!"), fret ("oh, too slow"), and coax ("come on"), while pollinators, raindrops, and rays of sun work their unhurried magic on the would-be squash. Less gardening primer than accounting of a slow-moving triumph, this In the Garden series starter depicts a parent-free project in the works alongside the delayed gratification that gardening can represent, all leading up to the protagonists' breathless delight around holiday harvest. Ages 2–5.
