Rotten pumpkin
By: by David M. Schwartz ; photos by Dwight Kuhn
Contributors: Kuhn, Dwight, ill
Publisher: Creston Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781939547033
Subjects: Putrefaction; Juvenile literature; Biodegradation; Pumpkin
Description: After a jack-o-lantern's night in the spotlight, it gets discarded in the garden, where different animals, bugs, fungi, worms, slime molds, and microbes feed off of it and break it down into the soil, where its nutrients help a pumpkin seed grow.

Compost won't mean the same thing after readers see the amazing transformation of Jack, from grinning pumpkin to mold-mottled wreckage to hopeful green shoot.
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