Pumpkin Heads

by Wendell Minor (Author) Wendell Minor (Illustrator)

Reading Level: K − 1st Grade

Halloween is time to pick pumpkins and carve them into pumpkin heads--jack-o'-lanterns of every shape and size!

Award-winning author and artist Wendell Minor uses simple language and striking autumn settings to celebrate jack-o'-lanterns in this reissue of a Halloween classic.

The perfect holiday read aloud, Pumpkin Heads takes readers and trick-or-treaters from the pumpkin patch for picking, all the way home for carving, and gets everyone in the Halloween spirit.

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The spooky realism of the illustrations will make this an instant Halloween favorite.

School Library Journal

Starred Review

PreS-Gr 1--The Halloween season brings with it pumpkins that will eventually become pumpkin heads of all shapes and sizes. They appear everywhere, even floating in the sky. They like to play dress up, and you might find one pretending to be a cowboy or a snowman or even a witch! Some of the pumpkins have jobs like scaring crows away or greeting trick-or-treaters. Wherever they're found, they wish visitors a happy Halloween. The illustrations are the star of this work. Gouache watercolors highlight the different types of pumpkin heads and their unique facial expressions. Readers will love looking at the pumpkins and might even gain inspiration for their own seasonal pumpkin carvings. A dark and autumnal palette perfectly captures the mood of the Halloween season. Striking, detailed art and the simple sentence structure makes this a great read-aloud or a possible solo read for emerging readers. VERDICT Gorgeous artwork and pumpkin heads abound in apicture book that's sure to entertain children, especially fans of the season.--Myiesha Speight, formerly at Towson Univ., Baltimore

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Wendell Minor
Wendell Minor has designed more than two thousand book covers and written and/or illustrated more than fifty children's books, including many in collaboration with Jean Craighead George. Recent titles include Trapped!, How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?, and If You Were a Panda Bear. Wendell has collaborated with Rob Burleigh on Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic, Abraham Lincoln Comes Home, If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond, and Into the Woods: John James Audubon Lives His Dream.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781580899352
Lexile Measure
380
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Publication date
August 10, 2021
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV009100 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Seasons
JUV017030 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Halloween
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Halloween
Pumpkin
Jack-o-lanterns
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 09/01/00

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