Asking Permission
At present I am creating a few new pencil puzzles for "The Pumpkin Project." These are always a challenge to do but rather fun too.
The selection already includes plenty of word searches and kriss krosses. There are three or four logic problems. So the new ones are pumpkin sayings.
Making such a puzzle involves first finding a sentence about pumpkins. Then all the letters are used to create a list of words with definitions.
The puzzle has the definitions with blanks for the answers, each letter over a number. The letter is put in the correct space to spell out the sentence.
The hard part is finding sentences about pumpkins other than in gardening books. An easy choice is "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." I picked out a nice sentence and created the puzzle.
But I can't use it without permission from the publisher.
The temptation is to put it in believing the publisher will never notice. Considering my normal book sales records this is reasonable.
But I'm trying to increase the circulation of my books. Is the chance worth it? Is the guilty feeling worth it?
I suppose not. So I will put together a request to the publisher.
And I will keep looking for more pumpkin sentences.
The selection already includes plenty of word searches and kriss krosses. There are three or four logic problems. So the new ones are pumpkin sayings.
Making such a puzzle involves first finding a sentence about pumpkins. Then all the letters are used to create a list of words with definitions.
The puzzle has the definitions with blanks for the answers, each letter over a number. The letter is put in the correct space to spell out the sentence.
The hard part is finding sentences about pumpkins other than in gardening books. An easy choice is "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." I picked out a nice sentence and created the puzzle.
But I can't use it without permission from the publisher.
The temptation is to put it in believing the publisher will never notice. Considering my normal book sales records this is reasonable.
But I'm trying to increase the circulation of my books. Is the chance worth it? Is the guilty feeling worth it?
I suppose not. So I will put together a request to the publisher.
And I will keep looking for more pumpkin sentences.
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How about a nursery rhyme? Or do kids nowadays know about Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater? I have to confess that that one scared me when I heard it as a kid. I didn't understand the meaning of "keep" as caring or providing for. I assumed that Peter wanted to find a way to keep his wife trapped somewhere, so he put her in a giant pumpkin and then (likely) devoured the whole thing with her in it. So, on second thought, maybe go with Richard's idea.
I do have some of those. One is on the difference between squash and pumpkins. Another is on growing giant pumpkins. What I had hoped to do was promote reading with a few sayings from literature.Perhaps I will do some research on T. Jefferson who grew pumpkins as fall livestock feed and do both history and literature. This is mentioned in a story page.
At the moment I'm looking at two coloring pages I need to draw. Amazing how many excuses I can find to avoid doing this.
The nursery rhyme did occur to me and I had similar thoughts about using it. Perhaps I can find some Halloween poems.
Like this:
Josey likes tiny pumpkins with odd shapes.