Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht, with pictures by Jarvis, follows a family on a trip to the pumpkin patch. They pick the perfect pumpkin, take it home and scoop it out. The rhymes are bouncy and the pictures are full of fall color.

Today your little one turns mini pumpkins into art with lines, dots and patterns. Washable paint and dot markers make it easy for small hands, and no two pumpkins come out the same.

A pumpkin has a hard outside, but what's inside? Under the skin, called the rind, is the thick orange part we eat, called the flesh. In the middle is the stringy pulp and lots and lots of seeds.

Peel a clementine, add a little green stem on top and you have a pumpkin you can eat! It takes one minute to make, and your little one can do most of the peeling.