Synopses & Reviews
Pumpkins can be baked in a pie, carved into jack-o'-lanterns, and roasted for a healthy snack. But how does a tiny seed turn into a big pumpkin? With clear text and detailed, colorful illustrations, this book explains what a pumpkin seed needs to help it grow! This book also includes delicious pumpkin recipes and easy experiments to do with pumpkin seeds.
This is a Stage 1 Lets-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explains simple science concepts for preschoolers and kindergarteners. Lets-Read-And-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.
Supports the Common Core Learning Standards and Next Generation Science Standards
Synopsis
Pumpkins can be baked in a pie.
Pumpkins can be carved into jack-o'-lanterns.
Pumpkin seeds can be roasted for a healthy snack.
But how does a tiny seed turn into a big pumpkin?
Read and find out what a pumpkin seed needs to help it grow!
Synopsis
Pumpkins are everywhere in the autumn classrooms, doorsteps, and roadside stands. Everyone knows what they look like, but how do they grow from a tiny seed to a fat, orange pumpkin? Author Wendy Pfeffer and illustrator James Graham Hale give young readers an in-depth look at hos this transformation happens.
About the Author
Wendy Pfeffer is the author of several titles in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including
From Tadpole to Frog,
What's It Like to Be a Fish?,
From Seed to Pumpkin,
Sounds All Around,
Wiggling Worms at Work,
Dolphin Talk, and
Life in a Coral Reef. She lives in Pennington, New Jersey.
Franklyn M. Branley was a co-founder of the Lets-Read-and-Find-Out series, and he has written more than 140 popular science titles for children including What Makes a Magnet? He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.
James Graham Hale has illustrated numerous childrens books, including another Lets-Read-and-Find-Out-Science book, How Mountains Are Made by Kathleen Zoehfeld. He also illustrated Ann Turners Reading Rainbow selection Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies. He lives in Granville, OH.