Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden By: George Levenson

Title: Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden

by George Levenson; photographs by Shmuel Thaler

Type: picture, science

Format: softcover with large photographs often covering both pages; chronicles the life cycle of a pumpkin in great details with many photographs

Multicultural: none

Awards: --2000 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children,Selectors Choice, National Science Teachers' Association/Children's Book Council --1999 100 Best Titles for Reading & Sharing, New York Public Library --1999 Top Ten Science Books for Youth, Booklist

Age appropriate: ages kindergarten (4yrs) to Grade two (7yrs, 8 yrs)

Brief synopsis: How a pumpkin starts out in a patch from a small seed

Interaction: Most of the words in the text rhymeQuality: humor/wit, rhyming words, large photographs, detailed photos ofmany pumpkins

Debrief: --Why do you think the pumpkin seeds need the ground to grow? --Do pumpkins come in other colors, too? --Have you ever put your hands into a pumpkin before?

-Luis G.