The Happy Pumpkin
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
A delightful, heart-warming story about a perky pumpkin who just wants to fit in this Halloween.
Halloween is approaching and it's time for the kids to pick out their pumpkins. The pumpkins have been looking forward to this all year, and are excited to meet their new owners. But when everyone is being chosen, there is one pumpkin who feels left out. He is the smiliest and happiest pumpkin of them all, but of course nobody wants a happy pumpkin on the scariest, spookiest night of the year!
Will this little pumpkin find a home in time for Halloween? Adults and children will love to read aloud and follow the story of this perky pumpkin as he hopes to find the perfect family.
With adorable and colorful illustrations, The Happy Pumpkin will make a wonderful addition to any Halloween-lover's bookshelf while teaching little ones an important life lesson about not judging others based on what they look like.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A round, smiling jack-o'-lantern with red spectacles grows worried as his fellow patch companions—each with a scary visage—get picked on Halloween. But in being himself, the friendly-faced pumpkin is in for a wonderful surprise. A contrasting font emphasizes certain descriptors, and enthusiastic speech bubbles ("My eyes are so scary!") add interest to the simply worded text ("Who wanted a happy pumpkin for Halloween?"). A warm autumnal palette highlights gently expressive characters, including people with differing skin tones. Perhaps unusually, everyone in town does their pumpkin shopping at the last minute, and all the pumpkins "still waiting in the field" already sport carved faces, but the board book's message is still worth imparting: "We always shine our brightest when we are just who we are." Ages up to 3.
