From Seed to Pumpkin

10 best books like From Seed to Pumpkin (Wendy Pfeffer): Cranberry Thanksgiving, Sarah Gives Thanks: How Thanksgiving Became a National Holiday, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, Owls, Pumpkin Trouble, It's Pumpkin Time!, Pumpkin Pumpkin, The Vanishing Pumpkin

Cranberry Thanksgiving

Author	Wende Devlin
ISBN	0819304980

Today was Thanksgiving, Grandmother's favorite day of the year. The cooking was done and her famous cranberry bread was cooling on the wooden board. Every year Grandmother invited a guest for dinner and allowed Maggie to do the same. "Ask someone poor or lonely," she always said.

She wasn't...

Sarah Gives Thanks: How Thanksgiving Became a National Holiday

Author

Mike Allegra

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Hello friends, and Happy Thanksgiving! To celebrate, our book today is Sarah Gives Thanks, written by Mike Allegra and illustrated by David Gardner, the story of writer and “editress”...

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

Author

Ellen Levine

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.

Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream...

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

Author	Margaret McNamara
ISBN	0375840141

For curious kids, this explores skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment. "How many seeds are in a pumpkin?" Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, guesses that the largest one has a million...

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

Author	Linda Williams
ISBN	0064431835

“A splendiferous Halloween story.” — The Horn Book

“A great purchase for Halloween or any time of year.” — School Library Journal (starred review)

Once upon a time, there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything! But one autumn night, while walking in the...

Owls

Author	Gail Gibbons
ISBN	0823420140

On silent wings a bird sweeps down in the moonlight...

With their striking appearance and distinctive hoot, hoot, owls are one of the most recognizable birds in the world. But did you know there are more than 140 types of owls living in the world?

Gail Gibbons' Owls celebrates the similarities...

Pumpkin Trouble

Author	Jan Thomas
ISBN	0061692840

Booklist (September 1, 2011 (Vol. 108, No. 1))

Preschool-Kindergarten. This is a typical Thomas tale, and fortunately so. With a shiny, chartreuse and azure color palette; thickly outlined, simple shapes; and quick, word-bubble dialogue, she tells the spare, silly story of the crazy confusion...

It's Pumpkin Time!

Author	Zoe Hall
ISBN	0590558498

Summary: This book is about a brother and sister who are getting ready for their favorite holiday. It goes through all the steps of how they planted pumpkin seeds to make a pumpkin patch. They go trick-or-treating at the end.

Evaluation: I really liked this book! It had really colorful illustrations....

Pumpkin Pumpkin

Author	Jeanne Titherington
ISBN	0688099300

Jeanne Titherington's Pumpkin Pumpkin (about a little boy named Jamie who plants a pumpkin seed in the spring and then in late October harvests a large pumpkin to carve into a Jack O'Lantern for Halloween) is the type of picture book that while the illustrations I have found sweetly magical and very much...

The Vanishing Pumpkin

Author	Tony Johnston
ISBN	0698114140

A classic Halloween story about a pumpkin gone missing is certain to delight readers of all ages!

When a 700-year-old woman and an 800-year-old man want to make pumpkin pie on Halloween, they can't find their pumpkin. "Our pumpkin's been snitched," cries the woman. And off they go to find it.
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Too Many Pumpkins

Author	Linda White
ISBN	0823413209

What can you do with too many pumpkins?

Rebecca Estelle has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl when pumpkins were often the only food her family had. When an enormous pumpkin falls off a truck and smashes in her yard, she shovels dirt over the pieces and forgets about them. But those slimy...

The Pigeon Has to Go to School

Author

Mo Willems

I can't believe that I was looking forward to a children's book! But it is about our favourite pigeon .