

The Pumpkin Book
Author: Gail Gibbons
Narrator: Polly Collier
Unabridged: 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Live Oak Media
Published: 02/01/2016
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Flowers & Plants
Author: Gail Gibbons
Narrator: Polly Collier
Unabridged: 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Live Oak Media
Published: 02/01/2016
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Flowers & Plants
Gail Gibbons grew up writing stories and drawing pictures to fit the words, and wishing she lived in the country. After graduating from the University of Illinois with a bachelor of fine arts degree, she became involved in television graphics. Eventually Gail became a full-time writer and moved to rural Vermont, where she could have a garden and as many pets as she wanted. Winner of the 2010 Regina Medal, Gail has written & illustrated more than 140 books. Gail and her husband, Kent Ancliffe, have a dog named Wilbur and two cats, named Miles and Davis. They live in Corinth, Vermont in a passive solar house that Gail's husband built and on an island off the coast of Maine.
This is a nonfiction children’s book about pumpkins. It is highly informative and very interesting. It describes the life cycle of the pumpkin from seed through mature pumpkin, as well as the various pumpkin varieties. There is history tied in, with the relevance of pumpkins to Halloween as well as......more
This informational text is used for readers to learn how pumpkins grow, the history of how we learned how to grow pumpkins, and how you can use pumpkins. The story takes you through the process in which pumpkins are grown, and how you can prepare your garden to plant them. Once the pumpkins are grow......more
The Pumpkin Book begins by introducing and explaining that pumpkins come in all different sizes. Then, it dives into the process of planting pumpkins by starting at the seed stage and continuing all the way to the harvesting stage. It also went into what happens after harvesting, and the pumpkin's t......more
Summary: The Pumpkin Book is a book about pumpkins, it talks about the shapes of pumpkins and how they grow. It talks about the first Thanksgiving and how a pumpkin was used for that and it also talks about the insides of pumpkins and how you can carve funny faces onto the pumpkins. Evaluation: This......more
I am for sure going to find this book for my classroom. What a great book for the fall months! I love how she labels the types of pumpkins (kind of like the frog book) so you know each type. I never knew this before reading this book. In really like how she explains when they are planted and how the......more