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Too Many Pumpkins Oct 26th 2011, 10:08 While Too Many Pumpkins is set at Halloween time, the emphasis of the story is not on ghosts, witches, costumes and trick or treating. Instead, the focus is on the heartwarming story of an old woman who had hated pumpkins since she was a child and how she responds to finding too many pumpkins in her own front yard. Too Many Pumpkins: The Story Because she had to eat too many pumpkins when she was a child and money was scarce, Rebecca Estelle grew up hating them. As an adult, she never ate or planted them. Even when she was quite an old woman, Rebecca Estelle still refused to have anything to do with pumpkins. However, that all changes when Rebecca Estelle is surprised to find out that she has too many pumpkins in her own front yard. It all starts when a pile of pumpkins is accidentally thrown out of a truck as it drives by Rebecca Estelle's farm. Although Rebecca Estelle tries to get rid of the pumpkins and their seeds, pumpkin seeds keep sprouting and pumpkin vines keep growing beside her front door. Fianlly, Rebecca Estelle gives up and starts using her back door so she doesn't have to look at them. She has almost forgotten them when she discovers a huge crop of pumpkins has grown right in front of her house. What is Rebecca Estelle to do? Despite the fact that she still doesn't like pumpkins, Rebecca Estelle finds a solution that makes all of her neighbors, who do like pumpkins, very happy and inspires Rebecca Estelle to save some pumpkin seeds to plant so she can do it again next year. What does she do? Read Too Many Pumpkins to find out how kindness and a sense of community win out over Rebecca Estelle's dislike of pumpkins. Too Many Pumpkins: The Author and Illustrator In addition to Too Many Pumpkins, author Linda Arms White's children's picture books include the author of Comes A Wind, I Could Do That: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote and Too Many Turkeys. Linda White is also the author of several activity books for children, including Haunting on a Halloween: Frightful Activities for kids. Megan Lloyd's colorful, detailed illustrations add greatly to the story of too many pumpkins. Megan Lloyd has also illustrated a variety of other children's books, including The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' by Eileen Spinelli, and What Color Is Camouflage? by Caroly B. Otto. Too Many Pumpkins: My Recommendation I recommend Too Many Pumpkins as a good fall picture book for 4- to 8-year-olds. Since the jack o'lantern is the only reference to Halloween in the book, the emphasis is more on the season and the story rather than Halloween. Not only is Too Many Pumpkins not scary at all, it is also a good story of neighborliness and making something good out of something formerly perceived as bad. (Holiday House, 1997. ISBN: 9780823413201)

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