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Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
We can be sure of this: It's a circle without end. It'¬?s pumpkin seeds to pumpkins To pumpkin seeds again! This treat of a picture book comes cloaked in the colors of fall. Bouncy verse and glowing photographs show a backyard pumpkin patch move through its natural cycle -- a bug'¬?s eye and a bird's high view of seeds sprouting, flowers blooming, bees buzzing, pumpkins gr...more
Paperback, 40 pages
Published
August 7th 2002
by Tricycle Press
(first published 1999)
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Vibrant color photos and delightfully musical text pepper this scientifically based lifecycle of pumpkins. A great disservice will be done to the effort of the author and photographer if one might only crack this book in autumn. A “great” pumpkin begins in the warm, loamy soil of spring. The intense photographic concentration on the specific elements of the lifecycle (seed leaves fat & green, twisty tendrils stretching out to cling, flower buds appear-brilliant sunlit bowls, finished fruit ri...more
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Pumpkin Circle shows the life cycle of a pumpkin, from the time the seed is collected from a pumpkin in the fall, through its planting and growing, and finally to its harvesting, just in time to carve into Halloween jack-o-lanterns. Brief, simple text accompanies color photographs of children in the garden planting and taking care of the pumpkins as they grow. The candid photos will draw young readers into the story, and there are some good opportunities to talk about gardening, plants, and the...more
Not the ordinary illustrated picture book, this nonfiction book uses photographs in a very unusual way to tell the story of how a pumpkin grows from seed to rotting jack-o-lantern. The text beginning with the book cover tells the story of germination where the title is a swirling tendril of words on an orange background. The photographs throughout are amazing from a mountain of pumpkins to a close-up of the guts embedded with seeds. More photos than text. Dramatic contrasts, both in color an...more
Great non-fiction book about pumpkins. All pictures are photographs! Fun way to learn about how pumpkins grow.
My boy Stig LOVES pumpkins like nothing else. He calls them ba-ba's and just can't get enough. So this book which is about the circle of life of a pumpkin was perfect. It starts as a seed, grows roots, leaves, buds and eventually we get pumpkins. Especially great is how it shows the jack-o-lantern then decaying back into a pile of seeds and then a sprout. I've got some "dead ba'ba's" that I"m trying to do the same with and I think that this book will continue to come in hand...more
I love this book! It's another one discovered while student teaching in kindergarten. It has real-life vivid photographs that are very well done. I absolutely enjoy reading it every year to my class after we do our pumpkin math carving activity so that my kids can see how pumpkins grow from the seed and how they change throughout the growing season...and then of course it dies and starts all over again.
Great children's non-fiction. The life cycle of a pumpkin is told beginning with the seed and ending with harvesting the seeds from the pumpkin to start the cycle over again. The photographs are colorful and extremely interesting. The different parts of the pumpkin are shown in detail from the root to the tendrils to the flower. My kids laughed and laughed at the photos showing the jack-o-lantern decaying.
I used this book each October in my classroom. Plusses: the concepts and photographs are wonderful. There's nothing like watching the life cycle – each new plant is a wonder.
Room for improvement: at times the meter is strained, which grated on me.
But the kids seemed to love it anyway! Still recommended for classroom libraries.
Room for improvement: at times the meter is strained, which grated on me.
But the kids seemed to love it anyway! Still recommended for classroom libraries.
Nice book about how pumpkins grow from seeds into pumpkins and then decompose back into the earth again completing the "circle." Did not find the photographs as inspiring as the book Pumpkins by Ken Robbins. I much prefer that book over this one for illustrating the lifecycle of a Halloween pumpkin into a jack o lantern.
This is a great addition to our science books. I love all of the pictures detailing what the stages of pumpkin growth is as well as the clear pictures of the root development. Great to be read along with Jack's Pumpkin during the fall season.
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Generally pleasant and inviting text (sometimes rhyming, sometimes a bit awkward) and well chosen photos make this a great introduction to the life cycle of the pumpkin; a good choice for some nature/harvest studies around autumn!
Using interesting photography and clever rhyme, this book describes the "circle of life" of a pumpkin. Such a fun book to check-out from the library this time of year.
Clever book about the life cycle of a pumpkin with rhyming informative text and large close-up natural photos that children will enjoy.
If you're looking for the best book about pumpkins, you've come to the right place! My favorite!
A nice little rhyming story taking the reader through the lifecycle of a pumpkin.
I really like this book for younger kids...includes interesting ideas.
good classroom nonfiction book.
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A life cycle of Pumpkin
Delightful!
What a wonderful journey from seed to pumpkin - clear pictures, rhyming and a nice flow. The DVD that goes by the same name is fun viewing. It has the same pictures from the book, time-lapsed images and even more pumpkin details and history.
An informative, poetic, photographic journey through the life cycle of a pumpkin --- seed to sprout, flower to fruit...a fat pumpkin to a grinning jack-o-lantern to a decomposing mess and back to a seed again.
Absolutely beautiful photographs and poems about pumpkins. This is a must for elementary classroom pumpkin units in the fall.
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