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Pumpkin Day
by Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth.
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After a yummy breakfast of pumpkin pancakes, a bunny family visits Pumpkin Hollow Farm and learns about different kinds of pumpkins and how they grow, in a tale that includes recipes. A bunny family picks pumpkins at a local farm and learns pumpkin facts in the process.

Pumpkin Day in this rabbit family entails a visit to a local farm where they learn about the fruit's life cycle, care, varieties, and other pumpkin lore couched in a somewhat forced story line. The clear and colorful cut-paper collage illustrations are the main attraction here, and pumpkin recipes included throughout add to the book's usefulness. Copyright 2003 Horn Book

Guide Reviews Horn Book Guide Reviews 2003 Spring (HG3A)

A rabbit family visits a farm and learns how the gourd grows, discovers its different varieties and uncovers a bit of jack-o'-lantern history ("In olden times, they hollowed out potatoes and turnips and beets for lanterns") in Pumpkin Day! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. Her signature collage spreads starring bunny characters feature factoids and pumpkin jokes throughout-plus recipes.

PW Reviews 2002 September #3 (P2I3)

K-Gr 2-One fall day, a rabbit family visits Pumpkin Hollow Farm to select pumpkins for cooking, decorating, and carving. Facts and riddles appear on signs scattered throughout the stand. Mrs. Bell, who works there, keeps pictures in her pocket that demonstrate how the gourds grow, and she shows them to the curious bunnies. Later, back at home, the family carves jack-o'-lanterns before enjoying a supper of "pumpkin muffins, toasted pumpkin seeds sprinkled on salad, and for dessert, pumpkin pie!" Recipes appear on lined, illustrated cards. The characters, created from cut-paper collages and placed on colorful backgrounds, are eye-catching and endearing. Children will love poring over the details and absorbing the information that has been expertly woven into the artwork. A superb blending of fiction and nonfiction.

-Melinda Piehler, North Tonawanda Public Library, NY Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. SLJ Reviews 2002 November (SL2K)