Thank you! Adorable story! My three year old can’t get enough! Pages somehow ripped in the mail all the way through in one spot bummer but we love the book!
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The story follows a series of sequences like many folk tales. Someone new is added in succession to help solve a problem. In this case, the problem is trying to move a giant pumpkin. A similar folk story is about a giant turnip and finding a way to pull it out of the ground. The lesson for children is that of teamwork and the solution is often suggested by the smallest member of the group.
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Item was as described and delivered quickly! This Story is a classroom favorite every Halloween. My old Big Pumpkin book was falling apart and I needed a new one.
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"Big Pumpkin" by Erica Silverman is a funny Halloween story that will delight children in preschool, kindergarten and first grade. A witch wants to make pumpkin pie, so she plants a pumpkin seed. The pumpkin grows so big that the witch cannot yank it from the vine. Some traditional Halloween characters come to help, but neither the ghost, nor the vampire, nor the mummy can make it budge. Finally a bat comes up with a good idea. They line up and pull together. Off comes the big pumpkin. The colorful illustrations by S.D. Schindler is a little spooky but not scary. With predictable rhyming texts, the picture book is good for reading aloud. Kids can also see the value of cooperation and teamwork.
Very entertaining bedtime story for children as the calendar leads up to Hallowe’en. The natural reaction to try an ‘kick that pumpkin’ every time is comes up adds to the humour of the story. Using the metaphor of the small bat coming up with the successful idea provides an opportunity to give children a positive perspective on what they can be capable of even though they are still small in stature.
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