Ocean State Libraries

"When Halloween comes around, pumpkins are turned into pumpkin heads of different kinds and greet trick-or-treaters." --

A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does.

Peter finds the perfect pumpkin so that he and his Dad can make a jack-o-lantern.

A sister and brother plant and tend their own pumpkin patch so they will have jack-o-lanterns for Halloween.

A young boy's fascination with pumpkins gets him into trouble one Halloween.

Relates how the idea of jack-o-lanterns got started out in the prairies during a time when a mysterious stranger rewarded kind townsfolk and punished greedy politicians.

"Stumpkin is the most handsome pumpkin on the block. He's as orange as a traffic cone! Twice as round as a basketball! He has no bad side! He's perfect choice for a Halloween jack-o-lantern. There's just one problem--Stumpkin has a stump, not a stem. And no one seems to want a stemless jack-o-lantern for their window. As Halloween night approaches, more and more of his fellow pumpkins leave, but poor Stumpkin remains. Will anyone give Stumpkin his...