Pumpkin Plenty! It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! by Laura Numberoff

SEVEN PUMPKINS!

It's a tall order for a small mouse to decorate seven pumpkins, but this mousekin has plenty of ideas for each one.

On one big pumpkin he paints the iconic happy face.

One gets a very sad face.

Then he paints one with a goofy face, followed by one exclaiming in surprise! Next...

Mouse is on a roll--until he notices something strange!

ONE IS MISSING!

Mouse looks around! What's that?!? That's a mean and frightening Jack O'Lantern. Mouse never painted anything that scary! Where did that one come from?

Could Dog be the culprit? His giggle is suspicious.

Turning pumpkins into Jack o' Lanterns is half the fun of Halloween, in It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! (If You Give...) (Balzer and Bray), and Mouse finally finishes off his duties with the friendliest Jack in the pumpkin patch in author Laura Numeroff's and artist Felicia Bond's Halloween story for fans of the boy and mouse featured in their best-selling series begun with If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. This one may help tots about to experience their first pumpkin-decorating fun get some ideas about which pumpkin face they want to choose.

For more pumpkin-carving tot-time fun, share this one with Leslie Petrocelli's adorable Boo! (Leslie Patricelli board books) (see review here).