The protagonists relate the Fall activity of creating a jack o'lantern on an old New England farm. One may assume a Redding, Connecticut, farm since that had been her home for 15 years. The little girl Sylvie Ann is shown among the fields and farm animals typical of an old-fashioned farm. Eventually she must come to her kindly grandfather's study to make a confession. And the sharp collector's eye will admire Grandfather's lovely tambour desk - drawn small but accurately.
Books line the top of the desk, of course, and there is a potted geranium for color.
A pet dog sniffs at a mousehole in the mopboard. Flowers form another leit motiv running through Tudor's books - flowers as main subjects and flowers as incidental decoration or as elaborate borders framing domestic tableaux. She collected notebooks of them as a teenager and has included flowers in every book she has created. Sometimes, flowers were the central theme of a book even when Tudor was not the author. Tudor illustrated all these books with the flowers and natural growth she had known all her life.