![]() ![]() ![]() I first posted this review in January, 2015, but I’m going to be posting a number of Halloween books this month so I thought I’d start out with this one. Be warned: if you read this book in spring, you’ll find yourself wanting to plant pumpkins! The text is easy for early readers and the story is entertaining as well as educational. The illustrations are wonderful another Anne Mortimer beauty. The big beautiful orange pumpkin is chosen and mouse has one more surprise for cat: he carves it into a jack-o-lantern (with a cat face, of course!) and wishes everyone a Happy Halloween. Pumpkin Cat by Mortimer, Anne Former library book Pages can have notes/highlighting. As the weather warms and the plants grow the cat and mouse watch as the bees pollinate pumpkins, build a scarecrow to keep the crows away until, finally it is time for harvest. ![]() The plant the seed in a pot, then later, they plant them outside. ![]() In this book a black cat (like me!) wonders how pumpkins grow. Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2011 Ostensibly a story about a cat and mouse who cultivate a pumpkin together, it offers a very basic, step-by-step guide to the process, as narrated by Mouse, who. ![]()
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