pumpkins! (Ages 4 to 8) - Review Golden autumn hues cast their warm glow throughout this humorous harvest tale. This is an ideal Halloween-time book for those who want to bypass ghouls and goblins (or any actual mention of Halloween) and focus on. Illustrator Megan Lloyd creates spunky, detail-rich drawings that are sure to hold up to the scrutiny of youngsters everywhere. In Too Many Pumpkins, a 1996 American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists," Linda White (who based the book on her own pumpkin-eating aunt Becky) reveals how swallowing one's personal (pumpkin) prejudices can end up benefiting a whole community. She buried the mess so she wouldn't have to look at it, and, as you might imagine, she witnessed a bumper crop the following fall. One day, years and years later, white-haired Rebecca was busy not eating pumpkins when-SPLAT-a giant pumpkin fell off an overloaded truck and smashed into her yard. But if you were forced to eat only pumpkins (baked, steamed, boiled, stewed, mashed, and rotten), you might agree with Rebecca, who was so poor as a child that she could only afford to eat the unrelentingly orange squash. Certainly, pumpkins are benign, as far as gourds go, and they make for delicious pies. "What's not to like?" you may be thinking.
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