Author: Steven Kroll
Illustrator: Juni Bassett
Genre: Fantasy and Science Fiction
Awards: None
Grades: K-2
There were two mice who had noticed a small pumpkin in the garden. Clayton wanted to make it grow to win the grand prize at the town's pumpkin contest. Desmond, another mouse, wanted to make it grow to make the biggest jack-o-lantern. They both feed and watered the pumpkin without noticing that they both were. One night, when it got really cold, they both went out to cover the big pumpkin with blankets. That is when they noticed that the pumpkin had got really big because they were both taking care of it. They decided to both keep it and take the pumpkin to the contest and make it a jack-o-lantern afterwards.
I really liked this book so I think I would use this in my classroom to teach students the different events that can happen in a book i.e. plot. It is an appropriate book for students in second grade and below because it is something that they will easily understand. To read on their own I believe they will have to be in late first grade or in second grade. I would use this book to teach either a science unit about harvesting crops or to teach plot in language arts.
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