• Age: 4 to 8
• Grade: p to 3

A fun and educational trip to the pumpkin patch-just in time to pick a pumpkin and carve a jack o'lantern! In this photographic picture book, filled with simple text and vibrant photographs, readers can join a group of young children on a trip to the pumpkin patch. Thanksgiving and Halloween are almost here, and the pumpkins in the patch are just waiting to be picked! Children will learn how pumpkins grow and what happens to them once they're taken from the patch. This fun and informative book also contains a great pumpkin seed recipe and lots of interesting pumpkin facts!

Megan Faulkner possède un diplôme en littérature anglaise de Queens University. Elle travaille en marketing à Toronto dans l'industrie du livre. Elle est l'auteure de plusieurs documentaires qui ont paru aux éditions Scholastic, portant sur des sujets bien de chez nous. Allons aux pommes!, Allons aux citrouilles! et Allons à la cabane à sucre! sont des documentaires très appréciés dans le milieu scolaire.

Megan Faulkner, a graduate of Queen's University in English Literature, works in the children's book marketing industry and lives in Toronto, Ontario. She still remembers her first trip to the sugar bush at the age of four. This is her first book. Wally Randall, a graduate of Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, has done photographic work all over Canada for many clients. Home is now a small ranch in the East Kootenays of British Columbia where he lives with his wife and two young children.

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• Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year
• Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Our Choice

Praise for A Day at the Apple Orchard:

"The delightful storyline will entertain young readers while the information sections will provide additional notes for older children and adults to read when reading the text aloud." —CM: Canadian Review of Materials

A Day at the Pumpkin Patch