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24 pp.
| McElderry |
September, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-689-85090-5$16.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Anne-Sophie Lanquetin.
When Sam, a raccoon, picks pumpkins, she doubles the number each time--first one, then two, then four, until she has sixteen. But going home, the pumpkins fall and become "the hill-rolling, bowling-ball kind." Although the slight story is energetic and the illustrations lively and humorous, only some of the sixteen pumpkins are accounted for before Sam makes pumpkin pie.