Pumpkin Books for Preschoolers
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Here is a fun list of pumpkin books for preschoolers that are not Halloween related. They’re perfect for the entire fall season!
I know that not everyone celebrates Halloween, so I wanted to provide a collection of pumpkin-themed books that your preschoolers can enjoy. These books are perfect for your pumpkin activities for preschoolers!
This list contains both fiction and nonfiction books for early readers.
Pumpkin Books for Preschoolers
As the leaves begin to turn and the weather cools down, it's time to start thinking about pumpkins!
For many kids, this means trips to the pumpkin patch and eating pumpkin pie.
But for preschoolers, pumpkins can also be a great opportunity to learn about shapes, colors, and counting.
There are lots of great pumpkin books out there that can help make learning fun.
Here are just a few of our favorites:
The grinning, glowing fun is now available in a Classic Board Book edition!
Young readers can join Peter as he searches for a perfect pumpkin!
We can be sure of this: It’s a circle without end. It’s pumpkin seeds to pumpkins To pumpkin seeds again!
Henry knew he could grow the biggest pumpkin in town, but he didn’t expect it to be twice the size of his house!
On the day of the Pumpkin Fair, Henry tried to move his pumpkin, but it was much too big for just one mouse…
Your little one will enjoy learning about how pumpkins grow in this fun fall ebook written especially for young readers.
“How many seeds are in a pumpkin?” Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk…
Jamie plants a pumpkin seed in the spring and, after watching it grow all summer, carves a face in it for Halloween!
But best of all, he saves some seeds that he will plant again next spring.
With countless unwelcome pumpkins to deal with, Rebecca Estelle turns disaster into a celebration.
One day, years and years later, white-haired Rebecca was busy not eating pumpkins when–SPLAT–a giant pumpkin fell off an overloaded truck and smashed into her yard.
She buried the mess so she wouldn’t have to look at it, and, as you might imagine, she witnessed a bumper crop the following fall, “Too Many Pumpkins”.
Desmond the field mouse wants to carve the biggest jack-o’-lantern in the neighborhood with his pumpkin.
Clayton the house mouse wants to win the Biggest Pumpkin contest with his.
But when they discover that their choice pumpkins are actually the same one, Desmond and Clayton decide to work together to grow the biggest pumpkin ever!
J.T., Allie, and Corey are hard at work on the farm. We follow them as they do their chores-like collecting apples, bailing hay, and setting up their farm stand.
As small hands turn the step-back die-cut pages, the images and scenes get bigger and bigger, finally revealing the entire farm and discovering a surprise-the biggest pumpkin ever!
Splat goes to a pumpkin patch with Seymour, and he is determined to find the biggest pumpkin ever.
But when he finally does, Splat finds out the real challenge isn’t the pumpkin picking—it’s how to get the pumpkin home!
Colorful pumpkins, crunching leaves, crisp breezes―celebrate the abundance of the harvest season through charming illustrations and sweet rhymes that are perfect for young hearts.
Pumpkins! Who can resist the sight of big, round, orange pumpkins ripening in a field?
Children piling off school buses to pick one out.
Making room for that last piece of pumpkin pie after a delicious Thanksgiving feast.
In this book, pumpkins aren’t just a fruit, they’re a symbol, a scent, a flavor of the entire season.
On a windy autumn day, Marla Little comes running down the hill yelling, “Help! My giant pumpkin is rolling away!
Onward it goes, rolling and turning, with no sign of stopping! Diddle-dee-doo! Oh, what shall I do?”
A little girl chases her giant pumpkin all over town with some help along the way.
It’s the perfect autumn bedtime story to read with your little pumpkin.
Mrs. Connor’s first-grade class is going on a field trip! They’re headed to the pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins.
Katie dreams of finding the perfect pumpkin. But the one she chooses isn’t perfect at all. It’s too small!
But then her father shows her that wonderful things often come in small packages.
What will Biscuit find in the pumpkin patch? The perfect pumpkin, and some friendly surprises!
It may be round like a pumpkin and even orange like a pumpkin, but this is NOT a pumpkin!
If it’s not a pumpkin, then what is it? Preschoolers and toddlers will love knowing the answer and enjoy the fun, “unexpected” ending!
Duck & Goose look everywhere for a pumpkin—in the apple tree, in the leaf pile, inside a hollow log…. Where will they find one?
What happens when a town has an accidental abundance of pumpkins?
What do José and his well-intentioned brothers do with a mountain of pumpkins? An EXPLOSION of pumpkins?
Step into Pumpkin Town and see!
Every year, giant pumpkin contests take place at fairs across the country—the 2012 record-holder weighed over a ton!
The latest craze is to carve the most enormous pumpkins into racing boats.
But what’s next? Why not think really big?
Pumpkins can be baked in a pie, carved into jack-o’-lanterns, and roasted for a healthy snack. But how does a tiny seed turn into a big pumpkin?
With clear text and detailed, colorful illustrations, this book explains what a pumpkin seed needs to help it grow!
This book also includes delicious pumpkin recipes and easy experiments to do with pumpkin seeds.
P is for Pumpkin celebrates the wonders of the fall season.
With help from the alphabet, preschoolers journey through God’s harvest blessings―in the process discovering just how much there is to be thankful for!
The fun is infectious as they learn to appreciate autumn for its beauty and bounty and more.
Growing up on Mimi and Papa’s farm, Peter knows a lot about caring for pumpkins.
One summer Peter finds a lonely pumpkin all by itself in the field, and with his tender care, the pumpkin flourishes.
This charming story for children illustrates how a loving farmer can turn a simple pumpkin into a simply glorious sight.
In the same way, God’s transforming love can fill each of our hearts with joy and light.
Why not cozy up with your little ones and enjoy one of these great pumpkin books today?
Well many of these still have to do with Halloween. I purchased the too many pumpkins book and the end of the book still ended up talking about Jac-o-lanterns which very much have to do with Halloween. The title of this post should just say cute pumpkin books for Halloween.