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The pumpkin book

Describes how pumpkins come in different shapes and sizes, how they grow, and their traditional uses and cultural significance. Includes instructions for carving a pumpkin and drying the seeds.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibbons, Gail
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Pine Plains, NY : Live Oak Media, p2002, c1999.
Subjects:	Pumpkin > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Describes how pumpkins come in different shapes and sizes, how they grow, and their traditional uses and cultural significance. Includes instructions for carving a pumpkin and drying the seeds.
Item Description:	Track 1 includes page turning signals (15:10); track 2 has uninterrupted reading (14:57).
Physical Description:	book + 1 sound disc
ISBN:	0823416364 9780823416363
Author Notes:	Gail Gibbons was born in 1944 in Oak Park, Illinois. She received a degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois. She got a job doing artwork for television shows in New York City. She was eventually offered a job creating art for a children's show, where some of the children asked her if she had ever considered doing a children's books. Her first book, Willy and His Wheel Wagon, was published in 1975. Since then she has written and illustrated more than 170 non-fiction books for children including Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests. (Bowker Author Biography)