Rotten Pumpkin - Hardcover

by David Schwartz (Author), Dwight Kuhn (Photographer)

In brilliant images and an easy-to-understand text, Schwartz and Kuhn tell the story of what happens to a Jack O' Lantern after Halloween. Compost won't mean the same thing after you've seen the amazing transformation of Jack from grinning pumpkin to mold-mottled wreckage to hopeful green shoot. Part story, part science, and a whole lot of fun.

Front Jacket

This is a new kind of holiday book -- a Halloween book for November instead of October. It's a Halloween story with the theme of decomposition, a science book about the recycling of life, a photography book with pictures so detailed, fascinating and . . . well . . . gross, that it will captivate and engage even the most book-phobic of children. Written in the first person from the voices of all the characters involved (the pumpkin and its many visitors including mice, birds, insects, fungi, worms, slime molds, etc.), the narrative documents the fate of a familiar fruit as it rots into nothingness. . . and everything.

Author Biography

David Schwartz is the author of over 50 math and science books, including many popular titles such as How Much is a Million?, G is for Googol and If You Hopped Like a Frog. His math and science presentations have delighted students in over 1,000 schools in almost every state and many foreign countries. With Dwight Kuhn, David produced Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed and Revealed, which won the SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Literature and the Animal Behavior Society's Outstanding Children's Book Award. He lives in Oakland, CA. Dwight Kuhn has illustrated more than 140 children's books on nature and biology with his brilliant photographs. His images have also appeared in major magazines and textbooks. Dwight was one of ten photographers featured in Susan Rayfield's Wildlife Photography: The Art and Technique of Ten Masters. He lives in Maine.