Awards
- Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (Primary) 2005
Overview
"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.Awards1999 ""Parent'-'s Guide Award""Reviews""If you weren't a pumpkin lover before, you will be after checking this neat book out."" -""Fast Forward"" magazine ""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"""""
Full Product Details
Author: George Levenson ,
Shmuel Thaler
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Ten Speed Press
Dimensions:
Width: 21.80cm
, Height: 0.90cm
, Length: 26.10cm
Weight: 0.396kg
ISBN: 9781582460048
ISBN 10: 1582460043
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 01 July 1999
Recommended Age: From 5 to 8 years
Audience:
General/trade
,
Children/juvenile
,
General
,
Children's (6-12)
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
For those who have seen the charming video of the same name, this will be an unhappy example of what happens when one medium is translated into another. Those who come to this without preconceived notions, however, will find glorious full-color photographs that capture pumpkin marvels, from the mountain of golden orange delights with a girl perched on them to the gorgeous close-ups of green sprouts, feathery buds, and full yellow flowers. The singsong text is often clumsy, rhyming seeds with leaves, hair with appear, and vine with time. The fascinating story of the growth of the pumpkin (and the pumpkin patch), from seed to jack-o-lantern, and then back, decaying, into the earth, is more fully conveyed in the pictures. (Kirkus Reviews)
Author Information
"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."
