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Pumpkin Moonshine | 
| Creator: Tasha Tudor
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 127157
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 40
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0689828462
EAN: 9780689828461
ASIN: 0689828462
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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Amazon.com Review
Halloween is coming, and Sylvie Ann wants to make a pumpkin moonshine (or jack-o'-lantern), so she sets out across her Grandmummy and Grandpawp's cornfields to find "the very finest and largest pumpkin." Once she finds it, the problem is how to get it home. This fine, large pumpkin is so big, Sylvie Ann can't carry it. So she rolls it across the field, like a snowball in winter, until she reaches the edge of the field where the ground slopes down. And suddenly, the pumpkin begins running away down the hill! Can Sylvie catch it before it frightens the goats, terrifies the hens, enrages the geese, and bumps into Mr. Hemmelskamp who is carrying a pail full of whitewash? Those who don't know the denouement to this more than 60-year-old classic by two-time Caldecott Honor artist Tasha Tudor will not be surprised to find a happy ending to this exquisite, gentle story. Tudor's delicate orange-framed watercolors of a rural autumn and a bonneted little girl speak to a softer side of Halloween--one that is not overtaken by werewolves, blood, and gore, but is a reminder of the season in all its fresh abundance. Tasha Tudor has over 90 books to her credit, including The Dolls' Christmas and Caldecott Honor book, 1 Is One. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter
Product Description
It's almost Halloween and little Sylvie Ann has found the biggest, fattest pumpkin. But before she can carve it into a giant, crooked-toothed pumpkin moonshine (or jack-o'Iantern), she has to get it home.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Cute Story, Beautiful illustrations November 16, 2008
TVSA (CA)
My 2-year-old loves Halloween. We bought her this book in October to help get her in the mood, and she loves it! The story is very sweet and set in a much simpler time. I love how it took the reader full circle, so children can see where pumpkins come from and how they get to our porch in the form of a "pumpkin moonshine" - with a silly story in the middle about the runaway pumpkin. The illustrations are beautiful. This is our first Tasha Tudor book, but definitely not our last.
Delightful for Halloween January 13, 2008
Dr. Joan E. Aitken (Kansas City, MO United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a primary book set in pre-1900s Connecticut. The lovely little story could prompt discussion about holiday traditions and life on the farm in the US. The illustrations provide an amusing and exciting crescendo. The teacher may want to use this book around Halloween as a seasonal story about scaring people, which is not a scary book at all. The book could prompt talk about what life in the US was like during earlier periods: When did this story take place? How can you tell? How was Halloween different then?
 Charming, delightfully old-fashioned Halloween tale September 18, 2007
Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First published in 1937, Tasha Tudor's "Pumpkin Moonshine" still has a timeless innocence and appeal. It is a delightfully simple story of a little girl on a farm who picks a pumpkin and rolls it downhill to where she can make it into a jack-o-lantern (or a "moonshine," as they apparently called them in New England, way back when...) A simple story made magical with clean storytelling and wonderful art. (ReadThatAgain)
Another JEWEL.... July 30, 2006
Joseph A. Cherney (Youngstown, OH)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Through the years I have purchased many Tasha Tudor books for family and friends; all have deserved a FIVE STAR rating as far as I am concerned. Her delightful illustrations have been outstanding and reflect the story content almost "word-for-word".
She is a MUST on our book shelf!
Kids will love this non frightening Halloween book. July 22, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
My mother read this book to me as a child. It was out of print for a while, but this new printing is excellent. The illustrations (same as orginal version) are superb and the text is quaint but clever enough to keep the attention of small kids or new readers. Highly recommended for Halloween or year round.
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