Pumpkin Moonshine
10 best books like Pumpkin Moonshine (Tasha Tudor): Ghosts in the House!, In November, The Little Fir Tree, Autumn Story, Happy Halloween, Curious George tabbed board book, Woody, Hazel and Little Pip, Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, Fall Is Not Easy, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, The Very Best Pumpkin
| Author | Kazuno Kohara |
| ISBN | 1596434279 |
JUST THE RIGHT MIX OF SWEET AND SCARY for the youngest trick-or treaters
At the edge of town lives a clever girl with a spooky problem: Her house is haunted! Luckily, she happens to be a witch and knows a little something about taking care of ghosts. She catches them, puts them in the washing machine,...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0152010769 |
In November, the air grows cold and the earth and all of its creatures prepare for winter. Animals seek food and shelter. And people gather together to celebrate their blessings with family and friends.
Cynthia Rylant's lyrical language and Jill Kastner's rich, cozy paintings capture the cherished...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0060281898 |
They put golden tinsel on his branches
And golden bells
And green icicles
And silver stars
And red and green and blue and purple chains of shining Christmas balls.
All alone in an empty field grew a little fir tree. It dreamed of being part of a forest-or part of anything at all....
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830548 |
Bad weather is on the way and the autumn crops are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of Brambly Hedge set to work to finish the harvesting before the rain begins. Primrose, Lord Woodmouse's daughter, meant to help, but somehow she daydreamed her way over the cornfield and into the Chestnut Woods,...
Halloween is here, and Curious George is getting ready for the big night. There are so many costumes to try on, treats to share, and games to play! George has so much Halloween fun picking out the perfect pumpkin, decorating his house, and celebrating with his friends that he’s not sure he’s ready...
| Author | Elsa Beskow |
| ISBN | 0863151094 |
Originally published in 1939, as Ocke, Nutta, och Pillerill, this charming Swedish picture-book follows the adventures of two Acorn boys - Woody and Little Pip - and a young Hazelnut girl named (what else?) Hazel, who all find themselves far from home one sunny Autumn day. Climbing aboard a large oak...
| Author | Julia Rawlinson |
| ISBN | 0061134015 |
It's autumn, and Fletcher's favorite tree is slowly changing colors and losing its leaves.
Fletcher is very worried.
He tells the tree he'll help. But when the very last leaf falls to the ground, Fletcher feels as though he's let down his friend . . .
. . . until the first day of...
| Author | Marty Kelley |
| ISBN | 1559332344 |
Fall is a tough time of year for a lot of us. Kids have to go back to school, teachers and football players have to go back to work, and parents have to look for new places to hide holiday presents. But perhaps fall is hardest of all on trees. After all, they have to change their entire appearance every year!...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0152661972 |
While I certainly do much enjoy the bright and expressive collage like illustrations (especially of the woodpeckers which just happen to also be my favourite birds), I personally think that it would have been better for Lois Ehlert to have either penned a non-fiction book about sugar maples (and woodpeckers)...
| Author | Mark Kimball Moulton |
| ISBN | 1416982884 |
Growing up on Mimi and Papa’s farm, Peter knows a lot about caring for pumpkins. One summer Peter finds a lonely pumpkin all by itself in the field, and with his tender care, the pumpkin flourishes. By autumn, it’s the very best pumpkin of all, and Peter wants to keep it for himself. But when a young girl...
| Author | Alyssa Satin Capucilli |
| ISBN | 0694012203 |
The yellow puppy and the little girl find a pumpkin, try on costumes, and go trick-or-treating on his first Halloween.
---- Library of Congress Summary
Wooof! Wooof!
Biscuit and the little girl are going trick-or-treating on his first Halloween. What kinds of silly surprises are...
| Author | Wendy Pfeffer |
| ISBN | 0064451909 |
Pumpkins can be baked in a pie, carved into jack-o'-lanterns, and roasted for a healthy snack. But how does a tiny seed turn into a big pumpkin? With clear text and detailed, colorful illustrations, this book explains what a pumpkin seed needs to help it grow! This book also includes delicious pumpkin...
2 X 2 = Boo!: A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories
| Author | Loreen Leedy |
| ISBN | 0823412725 |
I enjoyed the concept of this book and its approach to teaching multiplication. However, I believe this book would be best used as a seasonal teaching aid (given its Halloween themes).
The basic concept is that there are five stories about multiplying from zero to five ,and some basic tricks to perform...
Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus
| Author | Peter Sís |
| ISBN | 0679806288 |
Illus. in full color. The 15th century comes alive in this splendidly original picture book about Christopher Columbus. "The illustrations, executed in a variety of media, show scenes from the explorer's life as well as some imaginary creatures that populated the Europeans' picture of the outside...
| Author | Laura Joffe Numeroff |
Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he decorates all the pumpkins in the patch in this sweet board book from Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond.
Mouse is excited for fall because that means it is time to decorate pumpkins! But one is missing. Where could it have gone?
This is the...
| Author | Wendell Minor |
| ISBN | 0590521055 |
One of the best-loved activities of the year is picking out your favorite pumpkin and carving a smiling, frowning, silly, or scary face -- a pumpkin head!October is here. It's time to pick a pumpkin!
On Halloween every pumpkin becomes a pumpkin head.
Some are big. Some are small.
Pumpkin...
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
| Author | George Levenson |
| ISBN | 1582460787 |
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...
| Author | Will Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0807566667 |
A boy carves a pumpkin that becomes a friend. Well, it starts to smell bad and the boy has to set it out in the garden where he watches it decompose. Seasons change and when the snow melts, not much is left of the pumpkin. He does notice a new green shoot and he knows it’s a new pumpkin vine. He nourishes this...
| 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...
| Author | Susan Hood |
| ISBN | 0062010298 |
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...
No one writes fun poetry quite like Jack Prelutsky, and his holiday collections are among his most enjoyable. After the otherworldly job Arnold Lobel did illustrating Prelutsky's Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep, Marylin Hafner had a lot to live up to in It's Halloween, and she performs admirably,...
| Author | Gail Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0823416364 |
From an acclaimed science author, here's everything about pumpkins--including how they grow!
In this cheerfully-illustrated, simply-presented book, children can learn about the growth cycle and many varieties of pumpkins, and even how to plant their own. Award-winning author Gail...
| 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...
| Author | Kevin Lewis |
| ISBN | 0439439744 |
Kevin Lewis, author of the bestselling Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo, pairs up with award-winning illustrator S. D. Schindler to create the perfect picture book about a pumpkin on the run.
When Buck, Billy, and their little sister Lil spy the biggest pumpkin they've ever seen, they can't resist....
