A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does.

A family gets ready for Halloween, preparing costumes, making goodies for the school party, and carving jack-o'lanterns. Halloween jokes and rhymes are interspersed throughout the text.

Birdie loves autumn, but mostly she can not stop thinking about Halloween and what costume to wear, so when she visits her local museum she is inspired by everything she sees when she sees the pictures of many famous people of history.

The students in Miss Mackle's third-grade class enjoy a day of Halloween surprises, including Harry's unusual costume.

Little Kitty is so excited about the coming of Halloween that each day he asks a witch, skeletons, spiders, or other friends how many days are left.

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