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K-3
Illustrated by
Richard Egielski
&
Richard Egielski.
A pumpkin dreams of being as frightening as a scarecrow or the hot sun and gets his wish when children carve him into a jack-o'-lantern. The seasonal story has rhythmic language--"Ho, ho, ho! / He, he, he! / Mice will run / when they see me!"--and just enough scariness to appeal to preschoolers. Egielski's illustrations get darker as the story proceeds and end with mice running away from the jack-o'-lantern with the "zigzag grin."