Mrs. Blue's class heads to Farmer Mixenmatch's pumpkin patch as part of an educational field trip in this autumnal counting adventure for the picture-book set. Every step of the way there are things to be counted - orange objects on one page, animals on another - and the young reader also learns about the life cycle of pumpkins, and the different varieties of this squash. When the day is done, and the children have each picked a pumpkin, they head home, the children singing a countdown song taught to them by their teacher...

The second seasonal countdown book from American author Joan Holub and British illustrator Jan Smith, following upon their Apple Countdown, Pumpkin Countdown pairs an interactive, educational narrative with bright, colorful artwork. Young readers and listeners will no doubt enjoy searching for the different things they are meant to count on the page, but for my own part, the best thing about the book was learning about the different pumpkin varieties, from the Cinderella (yes, this is a pumpkin variety!) to the Mystic, the Fairytale to the Jack-be-quick. The most interesting looking, to me, were the multicolored Southern Miner and the white Lumina. Recommended to young pumpkin lovers, and to those seeking counting books with seasonal appeal. ( )

Children go to a pumpkin patch, and count everything they see.
Ages: 4 and Up
Source: Pierce College Library

Goes through learning how to count while taking a field trip to a pumpkin patch.

3-5
Pierce County

count, count, and count again ( )