The Pumpkin Book
PreSchool-Grade 3-Another example of Gail Gibbons' excellent treatment of a popular  nonfiction topic for young students, The Pumpkin Book (Holiday, 1999) explains the planting,  cultivating, and harvesting of pumpkins using bold illustrations and simple text. The book is  narrated by Polly Collier in a deliberate, unenthusiastic manner that emergent readers might find  boring. She carefully explains the page-turn signals (on Side A only) and that the words at the  bottom of the page are read first and then the words on the upper "picture" section of the page  are read. Most of the words in the upper section are labels of plant structures and pumpkin  varieties, and having these words narrated between the reading of the text could confuse young  listeners. A well-written book on a popular topic, this title does not transfer successfully to  the audio format.Shauna Yusko, King County Library System, Bellevue, WACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.