I Like Pumpkins

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• I Like Pumpkins was written and illustrated by children's book author Jerry Smath.
• It is an illustrated book for young children in which a young girl vividly describes her fondness for pumpkins at Halloween.
• The book is written in rhyming text.
• It includes five pages of pumpkin-related games and puzzles.
• It has been used in elementary classrooms as both a class reading and a supplementary resource.
• Schools have used the book as part of interdisciplinary units on pumpkins, which may incorporate planting and growing pumpkin plants, arts and crafts activities related to pumpkins, or basic mathematics activities that use pumpkins as units for counting or grouping.
• The book was released in the fall of 2003, coinciding with the celebration of Halloween.
• It was published by Scholastic, Incorporated.
• Reviewers have suggested the book may be used by parents or teachers as an introduction to discussion about pumpkins or Halloween.
• The main character is a little girl who loves pumpkins.
• She describes many uses of pumpkins she appreciates, including plastic pumpkins, pumpkins used to hold candy, jack-o-lanterns, pumpkin seeds, and her favorite, pumpkin pie.
• The illustrations show her and her mother traveling by car to a pumpkin patch, picking out a pumpkin, and then returning home.
• Along the way they see strange sights, including Frankenstein and his pet purple alligator, who are returning home with their own respective pumpkins.
• One image shows a fantasy version of the girl's bedroom decorated with a pumpkin theme, including a pumpkin-themed headboard for her bed and an alarm clock in the shape of a pumpkin.
• The book ends with pumpkin-themed puzzles asking readers to identify a pumpkin different from the others, count which of a set of farmers has the most pumpkins, locate hidden pumpkins in a parade scene, and identify a pumpkin that looks like the little obese monkey in the book.
• The book's ISBN is 0-439-52110-6.
• Its Dewey decimal classification is [E] 21.
• Its Library of Congress classification is PZ8.3.J437 Iae 2003.
• The book belongs to the American picture books, 2003 children's books, Halloween children's books, and Scholastic Corporation books categories.