Andy Shane, with help from Grandma Webb and some marbles, tricks the people who keep stealing his friend Dolores Starbuckle's Halloween pumpkin.

From seed to jack-o'-lantern, Ken Robbins's beautiful book captures the emblem of Halloween: the pumpkin. From late summer to Thanksgiving, pumpkins are everywhere, a symbol of fall and a reminder of the holidays to come. In this handsome book, Ken Robbins-widely known for his sumptuous photo-essays on subjects ranging from trucks to tools to autumn leaves-portrays the pumpkin from seed, to sprout, to flower, to fully fledged fruit, and back again....

Charlie, the smallest child in his first grade class, is amazed to discover that of the three pumpkins his teacher brings to school, the tiniest one has the most seeds.

A mischievous pumpkin threatens to eat Mrs. McMurphy. Mrs. McMurphy tries to get rid of it, including sending it to the North Pole, but it keeps coming back. Fortunately, this crafty lady has a few tricks up her sleeve.

When Halloween comes around, pumpkins are turned into pumpkin heads of different kinds and greet trick-or-treaters.

While Peter carefully tends a special pumpkin on his grandparents' farm, quiet Meg watches from her new home next door.

When Miss Blue's class visits Farmer Mixenmatch's Pumpkin Patch, the student find many ways to have fun, and a lot of thing to count.

"Simple text and photographs present the fall pumpkin harvest"--Provided by publisher.

A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does.

Rhyming text and illustrations demonstrate how many pumpkins it takes to fill a wagon and how quickly they add up each time the number is doubled.