Illustrated by Karen Hillard GoodA Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster, 2010
$12.99 (no dust cover)
32 pages
Rating; 4 (Illustrations are a 5!)
Peter's grandparents grow pumpkins, and people come to pick their own. The grow all over the farm, but one long.....long....................long tendril looping way around behind a rock is growing a tiny pumpkin. Peter lovingly tends it as it grows into a really beautiful speciman.
Next door, Meg has just moved in. She is a reader, quiet and shy, and she watches Peter care for this lovely pumpkin in secret.
It's the pictures I love. They're cute and clever and give a feel-good autumn sense of time and place. There's very, very little white. Lots of greens and browns and oranges. Curlicew black lines. Excellent font. Simple faces. Love it all!
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