
Each child will pick a pumpkin, then return to school and decorate it. School Library Journal Lets hear it for smashed pumpkins! Excitements running high when students take a field trip to a pumpkin patch. VERDICT An entertaining story with exciting surprises along the way, this is a strong addition to most collections.

This story would be an excellent choice to add to a fall unit of study or to pair with a nonfiction look at harvests and fall festivals. The text has a catchy beat, with some unusual vocabulary sprinkled in to help with language skills. The pictures are detailed enough to encourage one-on-one sharing but large enough for story hours. Autumnal hues in the color palette support the story perfectly, showing a diverse population that is happily collectively problem-solving. The kids are disappointed and then surprised by how the people of the town help them get their pumpkins back.
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They found the smashed pumpkins and turned them into celebratory seasonal fare, perfect for sharing: yummy soup, cake, pie, and even fries! Review Quotes In rhyming verse, readers learn about a field trip to a pumpkin patch that goes horribly wrong on the way home, the pumpkins fall out of the storage bins on the bus. But good fortune comes knocking the next day when a group of kind neighbors arrives at the school. Together they decorate the only surviving pumpkin for their harvest fair. Pluckily, they decide to take what they have and do what they can.

The old adage of when life hands you lemons, make lemonade is reborn with pumpkins! When a bumpy road and a faulty bus storage lock release a load of handpicked pumpkins back into the wild, the students on a field trip are left with a single pumpkin. A class trip to the pumpkin patch almost ends in disaster in this rollicking tale of resourcefulness and resilience. Book Synopsis A new fall favorite perfect for storytime.

About the Book When a poorly secured bus lock turns a school trip back from a pumpkin patch into a disaster, and all but one of the pumpkins end up in peoples yards, the neighbors along the road come up with a plan to turn the pumpkins into treats for the school children.
