Trick? Or Treat?
Each year, lots of families carve jack-o’-lanterns to celebrate Halloween. But did you know that the first jack-o’-lanterns were carved from turnips, not pumpkins? In Ireland and Scotland people hollowed out turnips and gave them creepy faces to celebrate the feast of All Hallows’ Eve. Many years later, when immigrants from the UK arrived in North America, they discovered that the native pumpkin made a much better jack-o’-lantern, because it was larger and softer than a turnip.
Trick-or-treating would look quite different today, without those familiar orange faces glowing in the dark!
Here are some wonderful, pumpkin-themed books that will help get you ready to trick or treat:
The Haunted Pumpkin Patch (Uni the Unicorn) by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Pumpkin Heads by Wendell Minor
How to Help a Pumpkin Grow by Ashley Wolff
Happy Pumpkin by DK
Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht
Pug Who Wanted to Be a Pumpkin (The Pug Who Wanted to Be) by Bella Swift
A Purr-Fect Pumpkin (Purrmaids #11) by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Seed by Caryl Lewis
Giant Pumpkin Suite by Melanie Heuiser Hill
Pumpkin (See a Plant Grow!) by Charlie W Sterling
Pumpkin Carving (Show-How Guides) by Renée Kurilla
Lemon Bird: Can Help! by Paulina Ganucheau
Pomme and the Pumpkins by Admar Kwant
Peppa's Pumpkin Day (Peppa Pig) by Courtney Carbone
