About this title: Rebecca Estelle, an old woman who has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl and her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a full crop of them.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Holiday House
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780823413201ISBN:0823413209
Description: Good. Cover has marks, bumping, sticker-Bumped / dogeared pgs-Few marks & creases on pgs-Partialy cracked binding at copyright pg small tear along binding as well-Cute book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holiday House
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780823412457ISBN:0823412458
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holiday House
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780823413201ISBN:0823413209
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Holiday House
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780823413201ISBN:0823413209
Description: Megan Lloyd. Very Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking! read more
"Summary: Rebecca Estelle hates pumpkins. "What's not to like?" you may be thinking. Certainly, pumpkins are benign, as far as gourds go, and they make for delicious pies. But if you were forced to eat only pumpkins (baked, steamed, boiled, stewed, mashed, and rotten), you might agree with Rebecca, who was so poor as a child that she could only afford to eat the unrelentingly orange squash. One day, years and years later, white-haired Rebecca was busy not eating pumpkins when--SPLAT--a giant pumpkin fell off an overloaded truck and smashed into her yard. She buried the mess so she wouldn't have to look at it, and, as you might imagine, she witnessed a bumper crop the following fall. In Too Many Pumpkins, a 1996 American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists," Linda White (who based the book on her own pumpkin-eating aunt Becky) reveals how swallowing one's personal (pumpkin) prejudices can end up benefiting a whole community. Illustrator Megan Lloyd creates spunky, detail-rich drawings that are sure to hold up to the scrutiny of youngsters everywhere. This is an ideal Halloween-time book for those who want to bypass ghouls and goblins (or any actual mention of Halloween) and focus on ... pumpkins!
Curricular Uses: This could be used as a read aloud for Halloween/Fall time. This book does not discuss Halloween, so it would be wonderful for classrooms that aren't allowed to talk about the occasion.
Social Issues: Poverty is a huge part of the story. Rebecca ate pumpkin food her whole life and when she got enough money, she told herself she would NEVER eat another pumpkin food again! In the end, she learns to accept pumpkins!
Literary Elements: Foreshadowing is an element with examples being when the pumpkin rolls off of the truck, when the vines start growing, and when she ignores her front yard for months.
Illustrations & Text: The illustrations help tell the story. Rebecca's emotions are clearly shown throughout the story. For the reader, it is important for them to see what all is made out of the pumpkins."
"This lovely picture book tells the tale of an old woman's dilemma of have "too many pumpkins". I loved Megan Lloyd's illustrations in "The Little Old Lady Who is Not Afraid of Anything" and the most striking feature of "Too Many Pumpkins" is the resemblance to TLOLWMAA..."
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