Pumpkin Moonshine - Hardcover
A little girl visiting her grandparents sets out to find a fine pumpkin for Halloween, and it leads her a merry chase when it rolls down the hill.
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Halloween is coming, and Sylvie Ann wants to make a pumpkin moonshine (or jack-o'-lantern), so she sets out across her Grandmummy and Grandpawp's cornfields to find "the very finest and largest pumpkin." Once she finds it, the problem is how to get it home. This fine, large pumpkin is so big, Sylvie Ann can't carry it. So she rolls it across the field, like a snowball in winter, until she reaches the edge of the field where the ground slopes down. And suddenly, the pumpkin begins running away down the hill! Can Sylvie catch it before it frightens the goats, terrifies the hens, enrages the geese, and bumps into Mr. Hemmelskamp who is carrying a pail full of whitewash?
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Those who don't know the denouement to this more than 60-year-old classic by two-time Caldecott Honor artist Tasha Tudor will not be surprised to find a happy ending to this exquisite, gentle story. Tudor's delicate orange-framed watercolors of a rural autumn and a bonneted little girl speak to a softer side of Halloween--one that is not overtaken by werewolves, blood, and gore, but is a reminder of the season in all its fresh abundance. Tasha Tudor has over 90 books to her credit, including The Dolls' Christmas and Caldecott Honor book, 1 Is One. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter
Tasha Tudor (1915–2008) was a Caldecott artist with more than ninety books to her credit. She was known across the world for her glowing watercolor depictions of the American rural scene of a century ago and for her exquisite paintings of children, flowers, and animals. Tasha Tudor was also the illustrator of A Child’s Garden of Verses, The Night Before Christmas, The Springs of Joy, A Tale for Easter, A Time to Keep, The Dolls’ Christmas, All for Love, Pumpkin Moonshine, A is for Annabelle, and 1 is One, a Caldecott Honor Book.
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- PublisherRandom House Children's Books
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0809810859
- ISBN 13 9780809810857
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Tudor, Tasha (illustrator). This is an ennlarged paperback reprint from 1962, The edges show light wear with some crunching at bottom corner of first eight pages. Spine has a light bump at bottom. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Story of girl who wants large pumpkin to carve. Seller Inventory # 29064
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Complete number line, first edition thus. 7 x 6 3/4 Book; binding tight, modest bump to top front corner else orange boards straight and clean; black marker over name to top front free end corner else text free of marks, appears barely read. Price clipped dust jacket has mild to moderate chipping and paper loss to mostly spine and flap fold ends with seven closed tears 1/4" to 1 3/4", three with clear tape to bottom front cover. Very good color to covers. Under archival quality mylar cover. Color illustrations by author. Photo upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Seller Inventory # 071522SP2
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Henry Z. Walck. Dust Jacket has long closed tear on front cover, else Very Good. Book is Very Good also. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. Seller Inventory # 105328
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