Trick? Or Treat? Did You Know: Halloween 2023
Each year, lots of families carve jack-o’-lanterns to celebrate Halloween. But did you know that the first jack-o’-lanterns were carved from turnips, not pumpkins? In Ireland and Scotland people hollowed out turnips and gave them creepy faces to celebrate the feast of All Hallows’ Eve. Many years later, when immigrants from the UK arrived in North America, they discovered that the native pumpkin made a much better jack-o’-lantern, because it was larger and softer than a turnip.
Trick-or-treating would look quite different today, without those familiar orange faces glowing in the dark! So here are some wonderful, pumpkin-themed books that will help get you ready to trick or treat in 2023:
The Light Inside by Dan Misdea
The Great Zombie Pumpkin Parade! by Robert Burleigh
Princess Truly Picks a Pumpkin (Princess Truly) by Kelly Greenawalt
Pumpkin Heads by Wendell Minor
We Planted a Pumpkin (In the Garden) by Rob Ramsden
Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht
How to Help a Pumpkin Grow by Ashley Wolff
Amara's Farm (Where in the Garden? #1) by Janay Brown-Wood
The Pie That Molly Grew by Sue Heavenrich
Pomme and the Pumpkins by Admar Kwant
Meowloween (Meowl-O-Ween) by Diane Muldrow
Pumpkin Day at the Zoo by Susan Meissner
The Big Bully (Pea, Bee, & Jay #6) by Brian Smitty Smith
