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Rotten pumpkin

by Schwartz, David M.,

Format: Print Book 2013
Availability: Available at 15 Libraries 17 of 17 copies

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Summary

In brilliant images and an easy-to-understand text, Schwartz and Kuhn tell the story of what happens to a Jack O' Lantern after Halloween. Compost won't mean the same thing after you've seen the amazing transformation of Jack from grinning pumpkin to mold-mottled wreckage to hopeful green shoot. Part story, part science, and a whole lot of fun.

Published Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Review: "What's scarier than a grinning jack-o'-lantern? How about what happens to it after Halloween? Kuhn's upbeat prose poems are written from the perspectives of 15 scavengers, insects, and molds that aid in a gourd's decomposition, which Kuhn captures in gruesomely vivid photographs. As the pumpkin transforms from a crisp orange specimen to a blackened, sunken puddle of mush, the speakers include a mouse, "black rot" mold, and a fly ("You're gonna love hearing how I eat. I vomit on the pumpkin flesh. My vomit dissolves pumpkin nutrients so I can lap them up"). The inventive concept combines a Halloween theme with science that readers can easily replicate-if they have the stomach for it. Ages 4-12. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Additional Information
Subjects Biodegradation -- Juvenile literature.
Food chains (Ecology) -- Juvenile literature.
Biodegradation.
Food chains (Ecology)
Publisher [Berkeley, CA] :Creston Books,2013
Contributors Kuhn, Dwight, photographer.
Language English
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
ISBN 9781939547033
1939547032
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