Author: Edna Barth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618067824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Author: Edna Barth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618067824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618067824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Author: Edna Barth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780605398078
Category : Halloween
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Origins explained and stories related about symbols associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780605398078
Category : Halloween
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Origins explained and stories related about symbols associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Author: Edna Barth
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606209960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606209960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Author: Edna Barth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816430871
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816430871
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Pumpkin
Author: Cindy Ott
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804440
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804440
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1546
Book Description
Paperbound Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
Guide to the Selection of Books for Your Elementary School Library
Author: Dorothy A. McGinniss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Subject Guide to Children's Books In Print, 1996
Author: R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher: Reed Reference Publishing
ISBN: 9780835236867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher: Reed Reference Publishing
ISBN: 9780835236867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description