Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin

10 best books like Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin (Mary Serfozo): One Is a Feast for Mouse: A Thanksgiving Tale, Over the River: A Turkey's Tale, The Cow That Went OINK, The Busy Little Squirrel, Ten Orange Pumpkins: A Counting Book, Five Little Pumpkins, Sheep Trick or Treat, Raindrop, Plop!, Can You Growl Like a Bear?, Duckie's Rainbow

One Is a Feast for Mouse: A Thanksgiving Tale
AuthorJudy Cox
ISBN0823419770
Perfect for Thanksgiving, this warm and humourous picture book gently reminds us to give thanks for the little things. The Thanksgiving feast is over. Leftover turkey and pumpkin pie litter the table. Mouse peeps out of his hidey-hole and spots a small green pea. the perfect feast for one mouse. Yes,...
Over the River: A Turkey's Tale
AuthorDerek Anderson
ISBN0689876351
Over the river Mama, Papa, and Baby Turkey embark for their vegetarian Thanksgiving Feast. But when a hungry boy and his dog start sniffing around, the turkeys have got to think fast before they become the main course!
Acclaimed artist Derek Anderson's glorious autumn artwork adds heaps of holiday...
AuthorBernard Most
ISBN0152047638
For Valentine's Day one year, I painted a big shipping box to look like a barn and put in it a plush cow and a pig and this book, and gave it to my then two-year-old son. Weird -- yeah, maybe. Smart -- yeah, definitely. He likes the toys and the book, and all of his farm animals are now housed in the barn box.

I...
The Busy Little Squirrel
AuthorNancy Tafuri
ISBN0689873417
I was very confused as to why this book received the Colorin Colorado until I researched it a little more. I found that this book comes in many different languages which makes it very diverse. This book is great for young children because of the short sentences and the repetition of lines. The book tells...
Ten Orange Pumpkins: A Counting Book
AuthorStephen Savage
ISBN0803739389
"Spooktacular"  -- Daily Candy

"Savage’s spirited rhymes (no pun intended) make this an ideal readaloud for younger Halloween celebrants."          --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The landscapes Savage creates… have a softness and gentle humor that will capture...
Five Little Pumpkins
AuthorDan Yaccarino
ISBN0694011770
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.The first one said, "Oh my, it's getting late."Get ready for some wicked fun as these five pumpkins run and roll! Toddlers will want to chant along with this popular rhyme again and again. Dan Yaccarino's vibrant and bold illustrations bring these pumpkins to life...
AuthorNancy E. Shaw
ISBN0618581200
What will happen when the sheep go trick-or-treating? Could there be wolves lurking in the woods, hoping to waylay them as they return home with their bags full of goodies? In crisp verse and whimsically eerie pictures, Nancy Shaw and Margot Apple tell the lively story of a remarkable Halloween adventure....
AuthorWendy Cheyette Lewison
One little raindrop,dark, dark sky.

Two little raindrops,

clouds go by...

How many ways can you have fun on a rainy day?  From one little raindrop to ten toes soaking in a warm bubble bath, there are lots of things to see and count until the sun comes out again.  In between,...
AuthorJohn Butler
This adorable read-aloud features appealing baby animals and a rhyming text that is sure to please.
From trumpeting like an elephant to howling like a wolf, author-illustrator John Butler delights the very young with this simple, interactive look at different animals and the noises they make.
Butler's...
AuthorFrances Barry
ISBN0763620661
Turn the graduated pages of this unique shaped book to help Duckie find her way home — and you’ll marvel at the dazzling rainbow that appears when she gets there.

Duckie is in a hurry to get home. She walks through a red poppy field, hops under an orange bridge, waddles around a yellow cornfield,...
AuthorJennifer Ward
ISBN0761455507
Spectacular illustrations rendered in oil paint, and a rhyming text that describes a tree’s activities from its roots to its branches, introduce young readers to the amazing activities that go on in a tree. Acorns nibbled by chipmunks, ants scurrying across a trunk, a spider spinning a web, leaves...
AuthorKatherine Ayres
ISBN0763623784
This garden is on the move! A good-time, rollicking celebration of things that grow.

PEPPERS GROW UP.
POTATOES GROW DOWN.
PUMPKINS VINE AROUND AND AROUND.

From seeds dropping into soil to corn bursting from its stalks, from children chasing butterflies to ants burrowing...
AuthorPamela Jane
ISBN0061767980
Over in the forest
Where the trees hide the sun
Lived a big mommy monster
And her little monster one.
"Scare!" said the mommy;
"I scare," said the one.
So he scared and he scampered
Where the trees hide the sun.

From monsters to ghosties to goblins, everyone's favorite...
Kitty's Cuddles
AuthorJane Cabrera
ISBN0823420663
Such a cute book featuring different type of hugs from different animals. The illustrations are paintings and they're gorgeous! Love the detail and how you can see the brushstrokes. I loved the illustrations so much! Plus I love cats so this was a win-win for me. The cat is so cute!

SPOILERS AHEAD:

The...
Pumpkin Trouble
AuthorJan Thomas
ISBN0061692840
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...
Over in the Hollow
AuthorRebecca Dickinson
ISBN0811850358
Over in the hollow, where the cobwebs are spun,
Live a giant mother spider and her little spidey one.

Who else lives over in the hollow? A papa mummy and his little mummies two, a mama owl and her little owlets three...and more! And they all have something to say, whether it's to hoot, to howl,...
Ghost in the House
AuthorAmmi-Joan Paquette
ISBN0763655295
Boo! Watch out for this rollicking, cumulative counting book for a Halloween treat that’s more playful than scary.

There’s a ghost in the house, In the creepy haunted house, On this dark spooky night all alone.
When a little ghost goes slip-sliding down the hallway, he suddenly hears...a...
If You'll Be My Valentine
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0060092718
Comments on the Story:
The story has a very sweet message the boy understands that being a Valentine means doing something nice for someone else and understanding what it is that they enjoy. Each page has a short poem like valentines verse for the person to whom the little boy wants to be his valentine....
Pumpkin Eye
AuthorDenise Fleming
ISBN0805076352
I didn't really like this. The worst part about it was the illustrations. I didn't like them at all. They're really sloppy. Shapes were not detailed and defined, just loose and like a child drew them.

The page with the yellow moon text didn't show a moon. It showed a house and a pumpkin. A page announcing...
It's Pumpkin Time!
AuthorZoe Hall
ISBN0590558498
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....
The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin
AuthorMargaret Wise Brown
ISBN0064435342
From beloved children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown and Caldecott Medalist Richard Egielski comes an enchanting Halloween tale!

A fat little, round little, yellow little pumpkin dreams of growing up to be fierce and frightening, just like the scarecrow in the field. Then one day in...
Pumpkin Pumpkin
AuthorJeanne Titherington
ISBN0688099300
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...
Just Say Boo!
AuthorSusan Hood
ISBN0062010298
If three dinosaurs roar when you open your door, what do you say?

"Boo!" of course! In this charmingly spooky story by Susan Hood, little trick-or-treaters learn just what to say in every Halloween situation. From rattling bones to ghostly footsteps, Susan captures all the best scares of the...
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