by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Buck and Billy Baxter cut the pumpkin loose on the hillside and off it goes thumpety, bumpety thumpin’ bumpin-Look Out it’s a runaway pumpkin. How will they ever make it stop so they can turn it into soup and pies and other wonderful things that Grandma...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Where did the holiday of Halloween come from? Why do we carve pumpkins? Who brought the tradition to the United States? This is a highly informative book about the roots of this wonderful fall celebration complete with some riddles and some pumpkin art.
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
For the youngest Halloweener, this is a book of pumpkin faces glowing brightly in the night. There are all sorts of ways you can carve your pumpkin. He might have a sad face, a jolly face or even a mean or scary face! But best of all, he’ll have a Halloween...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
There are all sorts of pumpkin possibilities out there in the world. It’s time for you to pick your pumpkin and give it a personality all its own. Wendell Minor gives dignity and artfulness to the simple star of the show. Happy Halloween!
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
A child wanders into a pumpkin patch and hears a pumpkin promise to protect him from the “foolies” who come out on Halloween night. So, he picks it and takes it home to carve and the mischief begins.
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
A mice stumbles upon a strange orange thing on the forest floor. He moves in just in time to save himself from being an owl’s dinner. Day by day he works on this new house to make it just right and then as the cold comes in, he tucks himself deep inside his...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Clayton the village mouse and Desmond the field mouse fell in love with the same pumpkin when it was still small and green on the vine. Unbeknownst to each other, they both started watering and fertilizing the pumpkin and it grew very, very big. Then, one night it got...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Fiction
Oliver and Amanda want to have fun on Halloween. But Oliver likes his fun to be scary and Amanda likes her fun to be happy. How can they carve a scary/happy pumpkin and figure out a costume that will make them both happy? 48 pages ...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Fiction
An opossum and a beaver find a seed and wonder what it is. This is an early reader that teaches the word families, “een” and “ean.” Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com *********** This book takes up one sound that is spelled two...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Cat, squirrel and duck have been cooking up a pot of pumpkin soup and now they decide it needs some salt. They’ll have to go to the city to buy some. Duck begs to come along and they finally say yes after he promises he’ll hold tight and won’t get...
