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Levenson, George

Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden

40 pp. | Tricycle | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 1-58246-004-3 $$14.95

(2) K-3 Photographs by Shmuel Thaler. Glorious color photos steal the show in this book on pumpkins in all their sumptuous rotundity. Each skillfully composed picture lures readers into looking more imaginatively, as well as more knowledgeably, at these vegetables. Levenson's text, adequate as an outline of the life cycle and care of pumpkins, is marred by awkward rhyming; still, the book is worth having for the splendid pictures.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1999