Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere
by Smriti Prasadam-Halls
illustrated by Lorena Alvarez
Date: 2015
Publisher: Parragon
Reading level: C
Book type: picture book
Pages: 32
Format: e-book
Source: library
It’s Halloween, and there are pumpkins EVERYWHERE! Pumpkins with happy faces and sad faces, silly faces and mad faces. Pumpkins carved as spiders and cats, wolves and bats. Pumpkins glowing, pumpkins bright, and shining in the starry night. Follow the adventures of four little trick-or-treaters as they make their way to their town’s pumpkin parade.
This lively rhyming text explores the many possibilities of a carved pumpkin. Follow the children in their best Halloween costumes as they trick or treat their way to the pumpkin parade, with a fabulous luminescent orange glow of pumpkins.
(synopsis from Goodreads)
This book is basically just a simple, repetitive poem illustrated with cute pictures. There are lots of things to look at and find in the illustrations, and the bouncy rhythm of the words is pretty good. I'm not sure if this will be a Halloween favourite of anyone except the youngest of children; there's not much of a story. But it would be a fun (and innocuous) addition to a child's Halloween library.
Premise: 3/5
Meter: 4/5
Writing: 3/5
Illustrations: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Enjoyment: 3/5
Overall: 3.29 out of 5
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