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mat_tobin's review against another edition
3.0
Stumpkin has been sat outside the shop front for days now with his fellow pumpkins (and one gourd - which ended up being my favourite character) hoping to be bought ready for halloween where he'll be able to sit on a windowsill and look out across the cityscape. But although he is a beautiful shade of orange and exquisitely round he is missing his stem! Poor Stumpkin watches on as all his friends are taken and he is left alone...
Cummins certainly has a strong eye for perspective, colour, tone and use of double and single-page spreads. She is also a master of saying much with very little. As Stumpkin is left alone outside the storefront, Cummins uses silhouettes of people coming along and choosing their pumpkins but it is Stumpkin's reactions and thoughts we look to here until a wonderful, uplfiting switch of perspective near the end.
This is not a story about being happy with who you are and how you look; Stumpkin is all-out down about his disfugurement but the story undoubtedly has a feel-good ending.
Cummins certainly has a strong eye for perspective, colour, tone and use of double and single-page spreads. She is also a master of saying much with very little. As Stumpkin is left alone outside the storefront, Cummins uses silhouettes of people coming along and choosing their pumpkins but it is Stumpkin's reactions and thoughts we look to here until a wonderful, uplfiting switch of perspective near the end.
This is not a story about being happy with who you are and how you look; Stumpkin is all-out down about his disfugurement but the story undoubtedly has a feel-good ending.
shighley's review against another edition
3.0
Okay, I'll admit it; I had to read this more than once to "get it." Really like the illustrations, the black, gray and orange.
mlottermoser's review against another edition
4.0
Stumpkin is a perfect pumpkin. Except he is missing his stem. He watches as all the other pumpkins leave and reappear as decorations in the windows around town. Will he find his perfect home?
katlogbrenn's review against another edition
4.0
Don't be fooled by the bland cover. There's plenty to enjoy in this Halloween story about belonging exactly where you are. Bonus- the black cat is super cute.
jessalynn_librarian's review against another edition
4.0
September 2018 - a sweet, not-at-all spooky Halloween story.