Picture-book author/artist Dan Yaccarino takes the classic Halloween song as his text in this delightfully spooky board-book, providing wonderfully colorful artwork as an accompaniment. "Five little pumpkins / sitting on a gate. / The first one said, "Oh my, it's getting late." So it goes, until the pumpkins eventually take off rolling, adventure-bound...

There really isn't much to Five Little Pumpkins - it's a simple, brief little rhyming song, that features a counting element - but Yaccarino's presentation here is lots of fun. I enjoyed his artwork, and think that the youngest children will find this an entertaining (if brief) read-aloud. I had meant to get to this one by Halloween (it is now mid-November), but it is so popular that I had to wait in a very long hold-line in the NYPL system. If that isn't an endorsement, what is...? ( )

This book is a counting book. I like this book because it is a Halloween book and Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. It is for grades pre-kindergarten to kindergarten, because it is teaching the listeners how to count to five.

Easy counting book for little children.

simple counting book for children with a halloween theme ( )

This is about 5 little pumpkins rolling and trolling about. This would be good for kindergartens because they will want to sing along to the rhythm of the book. ( )