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Pumpkin Circle
By: George Levenson
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The pumpkin seed makes the pumpkin plant, and P. 1-2 Pumpkin seeds make pumpkin plants.
the pumpkin plant makes pumpkins. Deep within
Pumpkin plants make pumpkins.
each pumpkin the air is damp and cool. The walls
are lined with teardrop seeds, each one a slippery
jewel.
Scrape them from their orange cave. Wash away p. 3-4 Pumpkin seeds are inside the pumpkin.
squishy mush. Save a few to grow next spring, and
Take the seeds out and save them.
have a bunch to munch.
When the earth is soft and warm, plant those
sleeping seeds. In about one week, out they peek,
two fresh, young, fat green leaves.
p. 5-6 In the spring put the seeds in the soil.
Then a little plant with leaves will grow.
This garden will be home to many pumpkin
cousin. One big pumpkin family, five varieties,
each one started from different pumpkin seeds.
p. 7-8 Many pumpkins will grow in this garden.
Every passing minute awakens each plant,
reaching down with silky roots, reaching up to
dance.
p. 9-10 Every minute more pumpkin leaves start
growing.
Week by week the backyard patch spreads before
your eyes, filling every inch of space with leaves
and roots and vines.
p. 11-12 Every week, the pumpkin roots and
leaves and vine s grow. The plants cover the
whole garden.
Huge green leaves grow toward the sky, prickly,
lush, and wide. They soak up sun and water, and
make a shady place to hide.
p. 13-14 The plants soak up sun and water, and
grow bigger and bigger. They get so big we can
hide in them.
Twisty tendrils grasp like hands stretching out to p. 15-16 The plants even grow twisty tendrils.
cling. They roll down into fancy curls and wind up
just like springs.
Then, silently as angels, flower buds appear with
pointy little collars and gleaming silver hair.
p. 17-18 Finally, many little silver flower buds
appear.
Velvet petals open, brilliant sunlit bowls,
delicately fragrant a sign of pumpkin gold!
p. 19-20 The golden pumpkin flowers open.
Along come the bees floating through the air,
buzzing, gathering, guzzling, zooming
p. 21-22 Here come the bees, feeding on the
flowers.
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everywhere.
Butterflies and spiders, grasshoppers and snails,
explore the pumpkin garden as they travel private
trails.
p. 23-24 Sometimes there are butterflies and
spiders. Sometimes there are grasshoppers and
snails in the pumpkin patch.
A hundred days of weather. A hundred days of
care. Pumpkins climbing up the fence. Pumpkins
everywhere!
p. 25-26 Then the pumpkins grow and grow. They
grow for 100 days.
Help those pumpkins sit up straight so they grow p. 27-28 The pumpkins grow round. You can
up round and proud. Scratch on pumpkin names so write your name on it. Watch them grow! It's fun
they stand out in the crowd.
to do!
Or just sit back. Enjoy the view. Pumpkins grow
because pumpkins know exactly what to do.
When summer turns to fall, green turns to gold.
Shorter days bring chilly nights and pumpkin
vines grow old.
p. 29-30 When fall comes, the pumpkins change
color. They change from green to orange.
Now comes the harvest. Pluck treasures from the
vine. Clear away lifeless leaves. Hide the rags of
time.
p. 31-32 Hi pumpkins! You are great!
Make up pumpkin faces, add bright candlelight.
p. 33-34 Some kids make pumpkin faces and light
Set them on the door step, let them flicker through them with a candle. Put them by your door.
the night.
Gather up the finished fruit, ripe and fully grown.
Tidy up the garden. Make a cozy pumpkin home.
p. 35-36 Then the pumpkins get rotten. They turn
into soil.
We can b sure of this: It’s a circle without end. Its
pumpkin seeds to pumpkins, to pumpkin seeds
again.
p. 37-38 Then we can get more seeds from
pumpkins and grow more pumpkins.
Salute the pumpkin circle! Make way for pumpkin p. 39-40 It's like a circle: First seeds in the soil,
cheer. Behold the pumpkin miracle. We’re
then plants, then pumpkins, then soil and seeds
pumpkin millionaires.
again. Starting all over again.
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