Book Review: 'The Magic Pumpkin' by Bill Martin Jr.

✰✰✰½  The perfect pumpkin is chosen to be a guard on Halloween night. It is given eyes, a nose, and a grinning mouth, and it came to life with candlelight. It seems the jack-o'-lantern was up to no good though. So just like that, the magic disappeared in a puff of smoke.

The Bottom Line: Lee’s whimsical illustrations bring this seasonal story to life. Read this tale of mischief and magic with little ones ages 4 – 6.

Details: The Magic Pumpkin written by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault & illustrated by Robert J. Lee. Hardcover picture book published by Henry Holt & Company in 1989. 32 p. ISBN: 0-8050-1134-X