Author: Cindy Ott
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804440
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.
Pumpkin Day!
Author: Candice Ransom
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553513419
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Carve out family time for this Step 1 Step into Reading early reader! Read along as a boy and his family visit a pumpkin patch to pick out perfect autumn gourds! Buoyant rhymes and joyful art evoke the excitement of the season. Pumpkins big and pumpkins small. There are so many—I want them all! Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553513419
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Carve out family time for this Step 1 Step into Reading early reader! Read along as a boy and his family visit a pumpkin patch to pick out perfect autumn gourds! Buoyant rhymes and joyful art evoke the excitement of the season. Pumpkins big and pumpkins small. There are so many—I want them all! Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.
It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse!
Author: Laura Numeroff
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063075369
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he decorates all the pumpkins in the patch in this sweet board book from Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. Mouse is excited for fall because that means it is time to decorate pumpkins! But one is missing. Where could it have gone? This is the perfect Halloween book for the very youngest reader, and is just the right book to get kids and budding artists inspired to work on their own Halloween crafts.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063075369
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he decorates all the pumpkins in the patch in this sweet board book from Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. Mouse is excited for fall because that means it is time to decorate pumpkins! But one is missing. Where could it have gone? This is the perfect Halloween book for the very youngest reader, and is just the right book to get kids and budding artists inspired to work on their own Halloween crafts.
Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night
Author: Anne Rockwell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802776140
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Relates a boy's excitement in buying the perfect pumpkin and then making the perfect jack-o-lantern.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802776140
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Relates a boy's excitement in buying the perfect pumpkin and then making the perfect jack-o-lantern.
The Pumpkin Patch Parable
Author: Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 140031643X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Timeless story about God's love for His children. This charming story for children illustrates how a loving farmer can turn a simple pumpkin into a simply glorious sight. In the same way, God's transforming love can fill each of our hearts with joy and light. Liz Curtis Higgs created this parable as a way to share the Good News with her own precious children each harvest season . . . and now with children everywhere.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 140031643X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Timeless story about God's love for His children. This charming story for children illustrates how a loving farmer can turn a simple pumpkin into a simply glorious sight. In the same way, God's transforming love can fill each of our hearts with joy and light. Liz Curtis Higgs created this parable as a way to share the Good News with her own precious children each harvest season . . . and now with children everywhere.
Pumpkin Day!
Author: Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Publisher: Two Lions
ISBN: 9780761453277
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A bunny family picks pumpkins at a local farm and learns pumpkin facts in the process.
Publisher: Two Lions
ISBN: 9780761453277
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A bunny family picks pumpkins at a local farm and learns pumpkin facts in the process.
Pumpkin Countdown
Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807566616
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Best Children's Books of the Year 2013, Bank Street College American Association of University Women Award for Juvenile Literature, 2013 Nominee A fun trip to the pumpkin patch that includes counting, grouping, and more. Fall has come, and what better way to celebrate than a field trip to the pumpkin patch! From 20 name tags on coats all the way down to 1 last pumpkin song, the class counts everything in sight! Follow along in this sweet, rhyming picture book, with interactive counting on each spread. Count the 8 orange pumpkins, tall, 7 yellow pumpkins, bumpy, and much more! Including autumnal illustrations and pumpkin facts, this book is perfect for the fall season and an extra fun way to teach children to count backward from twenty.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807566616
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Best Children's Books of the Year 2013, Bank Street College American Association of University Women Award for Juvenile Literature, 2013 Nominee A fun trip to the pumpkin patch that includes counting, grouping, and more. Fall has come, and what better way to celebrate than a field trip to the pumpkin patch! From 20 name tags on coats all the way down to 1 last pumpkin song, the class counts everything in sight! Follow along in this sweet, rhyming picture book, with interactive counting on each spread. Count the 8 orange pumpkins, tall, 7 yellow pumpkins, bumpy, and much more! Including autumnal illustrations and pumpkin facts, this book is perfect for the fall season and an extra fun way to teach children to count backward from twenty.
The Pumpkin Patch
Author: Margaret McNamara
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153448535X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Unhappy with her choice of pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, Katie thinks it is too small until her father shows her that the best things often come in small packages.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153448535X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Unhappy with her choice of pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, Katie thinks it is too small until her father shows her that the best things often come in small packages.
Dinofours, It's Pumpkin Day!
Author: Steve Metzger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439295697
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Just before Halloween, Albert brings the perfect pumpkin to school and is dismayed when the other students want to turn it into a jack-o-lantern.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439295697
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Just before Halloween, Albert brings the perfect pumpkin to school and is dismayed when the other students want to turn it into a jack-o-lantern.
The Pumpkin Plan
Author: Mike Michalowicz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591844886
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it” that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try. This is the exact situation Mike Michalowicz found himself in when he was trying to grow his first company. Although it was making steady money, there was never very much left over and he was chasing customers left and right, putting in twenty-eight-hour days, eight days a week. The punishing grind never let up. His company was alive but stunted, and he was barely breathing. That’s when he discovered an unlikely source of inspiration—pumpkin farmers. After reading an article about a local farmer who had dedicated his life to growing giant pumpkins, Michalowicz realized the same process could apply to growing a business. He tested the Pumpkin Plan on his own company and transformed it into a remarkable, multimillion-dollar industry leader. First he did it for himself. Then for others. And now you. So what is the Pumpkin Plan? Plant the right seeds: Don’t waste time doing a bunch of different things just to please your customers. Instead, identify the thing you do better than anyone else and focus all of your attention, money, and time on figuring out how to grow your company doing it. Weed out the losers: In a pumpkin patch small, rotten pumpkins stunt the growth of the robust, healthy ones. The same is true of customers. Figure out which customers add the most value and provide the best opportunities for sustained growth. Then ditch the worst of the worst. Nurture the winners: Once you figure out who your best customers are, blow their minds with care. Discover their unfulfilled needs, innovate to make their wishes come true, and overdeliver on every single promise. Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconventional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591844886
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it” that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try. This is the exact situation Mike Michalowicz found himself in when he was trying to grow his first company. Although it was making steady money, there was never very much left over and he was chasing customers left and right, putting in twenty-eight-hour days, eight days a week. The punishing grind never let up. His company was alive but stunted, and he was barely breathing. That’s when he discovered an unlikely source of inspiration—pumpkin farmers. After reading an article about a local farmer who had dedicated his life to growing giant pumpkins, Michalowicz realized the same process could apply to growing a business. He tested the Pumpkin Plan on his own company and transformed it into a remarkable, multimillion-dollar industry leader. First he did it for himself. Then for others. And now you. So what is the Pumpkin Plan? Plant the right seeds: Don’t waste time doing a bunch of different things just to please your customers. Instead, identify the thing you do better than anyone else and focus all of your attention, money, and time on figuring out how to grow your company doing it. Weed out the losers: In a pumpkin patch small, rotten pumpkins stunt the growth of the robust, healthy ones. The same is true of customers. Figure out which customers add the most value and provide the best opportunities for sustained growth. Then ditch the worst of the worst. Nurture the winners: Once you figure out who your best customers are, blow their minds with care. Discover their unfulfilled needs, innovate to make their wishes come true, and overdeliver on every single promise. Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconventional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field.
A Day at the Pumpkin Patch
Author: Megan Faulkner
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 9780439946674
Category : Citrouille / Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A fun and educational trip to the pumpkin patch-just in time to pick a pumpkin and carve a jack o'lantern! In this photographic picture book, filled with simple text and vibrant photographs, readers can join a group of young children on a trip to the pumpkin patch. Thanksgiving and Halloween are almost here, and the pumpkins in the patch are just waiting to be picked! Children will learn how pumpkins grow and what happens to them once they're taken from the patch. This fun and informative book also contains a great pumpkin seed recipe and lots of interesting pumpkin facts!
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 9780439946674
Category : Citrouille / Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A fun and educational trip to the pumpkin patch-just in time to pick a pumpkin and carve a jack o'lantern! In this photographic picture book, filled with simple text and vibrant photographs, readers can join a group of young children on a trip to the pumpkin patch. Thanksgiving and Halloween are almost here, and the pumpkins in the patch are just waiting to be picked! Children will learn how pumpkins grow and what happens to them once they're taken from the patch. This fun and informative book also contains a great pumpkin seed recipe and lots of interesting pumpkin facts!