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Five Little Pumpkins

by · 1998

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A playful Halloween board book built around a classic counting rhyme about five pumpkins perched on a gate. Each verse brings a little more trouble and a little more fun. Soft, raised pumpkin shapes sit on the pages and vanish one by one as each stanza is read, giving small hands something to touch and small listeners something to count. Written for the youngest readers, it is a good choice for storytime or for a child's first taste of seasonal rhyme. Reciting along is half the fun.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
HalloweenHalloweenMore like thisLess of thisChristmasChristmasMore like thisLess of this
Mood
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Audience
childrenspicture books
Length
short · 16 pages
Form
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