Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Candlewick Press (MA) (2017), Edition: Illustrated, 32 pages
Description
Pattan has an amazing pumpkin... it grows bigger than the goats, bigger than the elephants, until it is as tall as the mountains. But can Pattan's pumpkin save his family and all the animals when the storm-clouds burst and the waters rise?
Local notes
Horn Book Guide, 03/31/2018
In this traditional tale of the Irula people of Kerala, Pattan and his wife (considered ancestors of the people) and all their animals escape a mountaintop threatened by flooding in a hollowed-out pumpkin and settle in the foothills below. Lessac's richly colored, naive-style gouache paintings beautifully depict the lush South Indian landscape, and the text is just right for reading aloud. An author's note is included.
In this traditional tale of the Irula people of Kerala, Pattan and his wife (considered ancestors of the people) and all their animals escape a mountaintop threatened by flooding in a hollowed-out pumpkin and settle in the foothills below. Lessac's richly colored, naive-style gouache paintings beautifully depict the lush South Indian landscape, and the text is just right for reading aloud. An author's note is included.