Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Tricycle Press
Pages
40
Description
Rhyming text and photographs follow a pumpkin patch as it grows and changes, from seeds to plants to pumpkins ready to harvest, to jack-o-lanterns and then to seeds again.
Description
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 view of seeds sprouting, flowers blooming, bees buzzing, pumpkins growing . . .and then going back to earth. An author's note explains how to grow your own pumpkin. Educators, please visit our Resources section, above, for teaching guides and curricula. Awards1999 Parent's Guide Award Reviews "If you weren't a pumpkin lover before, you will be after checking this neat book out." -Fast Forward magazine "Eye-catching full-color photography and rhyming text. . . An excellent choice for fall pumpkin studies."-Public Schools of North Carolina's Infotech "Your books will help us put an emphasis on early reading and help improve the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding farmers and agriculture."-American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
40 p.; 10.1 inches
ISBN
1582460043 / 9781582460048
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LibraryThing member patsila
This beautifully poetic book is a really great way to enjoy learning about gardening. It will really get the kids (and parents) psyched for Fall! The only thing, is at the very end, there is a couple of line that could be interpreted as Pagan. If that's a problem though, it is something that could
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LibraryThing member mstuhan
Great book for discussions about sustainability.
LibraryThing member K.Perez33
Review: Pumpkin circles talks about the ins and outs of pumpkins and how they get to a garden. This book also shares how to take care of the pumpkin throughout its life cycle and then back to the beginning.
Personal Reaction: Its not a book I would enjoy reading. Although it would interest me
Extension: I would use this book during the Halloween and Thanksgiving time of year for students to see how pumpkins are made. Also, it can be used during the same period for kids to show their artsy side with carving designs in their pumpkin.
Personal Reaction: Its not a book I would enjoy reading. Although it would interest me
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during halloween and Thanksgiving maybe to learn how to grow pumpkins at some point. Extension: I would use this book during the Halloween and Thanksgiving time of year for students to see how pumpkins are made. Also, it can be used during the same period for kids to show their artsy side with carving designs in their pumpkin.
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LibraryThing member brittanydonohue
Students will need scaffolding in how and what is appropriate when using garden tools or how to treat living plants.
LibraryThing member Edwardlynn
The development of a pumpkin seed into a plant, pumpkin, jack-o'-lantern, and, completing the circle, back to seed again, is the subject of this colorful book.
LibraryThing member MaddieDeMarcus
Summary:
This book is about how to grow a pumpkin and about the steps it takes to grow them. The book gives a series of steps to help you build your own pumpkin garden(if you wanted to) and all that happens in each step. This book shows pictures during each step to better understand what is going
Reflection:
I really found this book rather interesting because I never knew how much work it took and how long the process was to create a pumpkin garden. The pictures really describe what is going on during that certain step in the process. This guy's back yard in the book looked really crowded and like a giant mess. Planting pumpkins and having a pumpkin garden may seem like a lot of work, but it would be really cool to grow your own pumpkins.
1. Bring in different seeds to show to the students
2. Take the kids on a field trip to a big pumpkin farm
This book is about how to grow a pumpkin and about the steps it takes to grow them. The book gives a series of steps to help you build your own pumpkin garden(if you wanted to) and all that happens in each step. This book shows pictures during each step to better understand what is going
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on. Reflection:
I really found this book rather interesting because I never knew how much work it took and how long the process was to create a pumpkin garden. The pictures really describe what is going on during that certain step in the process. This guy's back yard in the book looked really crowded and like a giant mess. Planting pumpkins and having a pumpkin garden may seem like a lot of work, but it would be really cool to grow your own pumpkins.
1. Bring in different seeds to show to the students
2. Take the kids on a field trip to a big pumpkin farm
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LibraryThing member sarah.vargo
Life cycle of a pumpkin, from seed to pumpkin
LibraryThing member TameitriaJ
The beautiful bright pictures and unique placement of the wording make this book appealing to kids. The picture are of real nature and children. It gives an in depth look of how pumpkins are planted then how they grow. It also talks about what pumpkins need to grow big and plump. After showing how
I personally like this book because its not only information but it is science as well. I also like that it includes pictured of real objects instead of drawings.
Classroom extension:
1. The students can visit a pumpkin patch
2. Place a pumpkin in a big glass jar and allow it to decay. The child can keep a journal about the progress and what is happening.
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pumpkins grow, the author shows what happens to the pumpkin after it starts to decay. The pumpkin starts off big and round and as time goes on it starts sinking in and shrinking in size. Eventually it will turn into muck and mix in with the dirt enabling new seeds to grow. A pumpkin circle starts off with pumpkin seeds, then pumpkins, then back to seeds again. The circle that never ends. I personally like this book because its not only information but it is science as well. I also like that it includes pictured of real objects instead of drawings.
Classroom extension:
1. The students can visit a pumpkin patch
2. Place a pumpkin in a big glass jar and allow it to decay. The child can keep a journal about the progress and what is happening.
Show Less
LibraryThing member uufnn
Beautiful pictures of the growth, use of a pumpkin for a jack-o-lantern, decomposition and return to the soil. Clever pictures of a child with her pumpkin. Information on "How to Grow Pumpkins".
Awards
Riverby Awards (Winner — 2000)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — Primary — 2005)
De Bary Children's Science Book Award (Nominee — 2012)
Call number
J2M.2303