It's a Pumpkin!

by Wendy McClure, Kate Kronreif (Illustrator)

Overview

It's big. It's orange. But what is it?

When Field Mouse and Squirrel find something big, round, and orange in the middle of the road, it looks kind of familiar. Skunk is positive it's a lamp, and Rabbit thinks it looks like a snack, but no one knows for sure. Luckily, there's one thing they can all agree on: it's the life of the party! Discover all of the ways you can use a pumpkin in this adorable fall adventure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807512166
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	354,735
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	AD470L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Wendy McClure is an author and a children's book editor. Her work in children's books includes the picture book It's a Pumpkin! and the Wanderville middle grade series. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and now lives in Chicago with her husband, Chris, in a neighborhood near the river.

Kate Kronreif is a British illustrator living in Austria with her husband and two children. She studied Fine Art before going on to work as a graphic designer and then making the move into illustration.

Editorial Reviews

"The community interactions are charming to watch."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-07-14
A group of animals discovers a large, round, orange object with a green stem and begins to question and surmise its usefulness and possibilities.

Squirrel and Field Mouse push it out of the way, and it rolls to a stop where Opossum is napping. Opossum thinks it makes a rather comfortable chair. Raccoon is sure it is a table to support a plate of cookies. Soon others join in to enjoy the cookies and cider, which Opossum contributes. While the impromptu party is in full swing, Woodchuck explains the object would make a good doorstop. As day turns to night, Skunk professes that it’s really a lamp and demonstrates how to carve it out and place a candle inside the now-smiling face. The pulp and seeds are then used for pie and roasting, which everyone snacks on till they hunker down for winter. When they emerge in the newly verdant spring, they discover a plant that produces a flower, which then becomes an orange, round object and…it’s party time again. These unclothed but otherwise anthropomorphic cartoon creatures never actually say the name of this autumn gourd, leaving it to kids to express the obvious, only acknowledged in the title. The somewhat lengthy text spins out its premise deliberately, and kids who know very well that it’s a pumpkin and what a pumpkin is for may tire of the speculation, but the community interactions are charming to watch.

Curiosity and ingenuity in a mild fall mystery. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews