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Describes how pumpkins come in different shapes and sizes, how they grow, and their traditional uses and cultural significance. Includes instructions for carving a pumpkin and drying the seeds.

Rebecca Estelle, an old woman who has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl and her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a full crop of them.

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.

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

"Halloween is here. There are leaves on the ground and a chill in the air. Everyone cannot wait to go trick-or-treating ... everyone except Linus. He'll be waiting in the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin to arrive. Will this finally be the Halloween that the Great Pumpkin appears? Experience the frights and fun of the spookiest night of the year in this deluxe collector's edition of the Halloween classic."--Back cover.

A bunny family picks pumpkins at a local farm and learns pumpkin facts in the process.

The Baxter brothers find a wonderful pumpkin for Halloween, but first they must catch up with it when it rolls down the hill.

Text and photographs describe the activities in a pumpkin patch,as pink-colored seeds become fat pumpkins, ready to be carved into jack-o'- lanterns.