The illustrations are rendered in pencil and watercolor. It also talks about carving a jack-o-lanern, passing out apples as treats and the little girl going Trick or Treating as a witch. The story is a good choice to introduce younger children to what they might do when taking a trip to an farm to get apples or pumpkins. The text is simple, designed to communicate the simple joys of Fall and a visit to an apple and pumpkin farm.

At home, she helps her mother carve a Jack O Lantern just in time for Halloween. Rockwell, pictures by Lizzy Rockwell is a classic Fall book for toddlers or preschoolers about a little girl, who visits the Comstock Farm to choose the reddest apples from the trees and find the best pumpkin in the patch. For while there is of course nothing problematic found within the pages of Apples and Pumpkins (unless of course you are amongst those who consider the entire concept of Halloween as something evil and satanic), personally, I just have not found myself in any way really enjoying either Anne Rockwell's printed words or her daughter Lizzy's artwork (and thus, my ranking for Apples and Pumpkins will naturally also reflect that this book really has been at best rather a disappointment).Īpples and Pumpkins by Anne F. And yes, even in a very simple picture book about a family going out to harvest apples and pumpkins and then to carve a pumpkin for Halloween, the bare minimum is just not really enough for me to rank Apples and Pumpkins with more than two stars at best. Informative enough with regard to how at many so-called do-it-yourself farms, people pick and gather their own produce (like the apples and pumpkins of the book title), there is nevertheless just not in any manner enough information, there is simply not sufficient depicted and described details that are of interest being textually shown in Apples and Pumpkins except truly just the very bare minimum.

Honestly, while Anne Rockwell does (I guess) present a sweet enough little piece of basic and simple storytelling fluff about a family going on an autumn excursion to pick (to harvest) apples and pumpkins, there is really (in my opinion) nothing contained in either the featured text or the accompanying illustrations of Apples and Pumpkins that has in any manner managed to lastingly and truly wow or impress me (and no, even as a young child, I most definitely would have found Anne Rockwell's presented narrative of Apples and Pumpkins much too frustratingly lacking in verbal description and Lizzy Rockwell's artwork as too cartoon-like and one dimensionally stagnant, with especially the depicted facial features of both the family and the farmer feeling aesthetically devoid of even rudimentary and basic necessary expressiveness).

Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell