pumpkin

Enjoy this video of how animals at the Brookfield Zoo celebrated Halloween early this year. Happy Halloween!

"Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin." -Simone Schwarz-Bart With Halloween just behind us, the only things that pumpkins may mean to you now are pie, soups, or -- as John Prine would sing you -- a condescending term of affection, as in, Daddy's Little Pumpkin. But I recently came across the most amazing Jack-O-Lantern I've ever seen, where someone turned a pumpkin into a working, playable game of tetris! Image credit: "Pumpktris" by Nathan at http://www.hahabird.com/. This idea -- and the design -- is nothing short of brilliant. The pumpkin itself was an intricately…

This week Minnow and I are pleased to honor the first request from a DonorsChoose Challenge giver. (There's still time, donate enough to complete a project, email me the receipt and you too can request a story.) I'll admit to being pretty excited when this request came it, because it was perfectly seasonal...and we already had the book in our queue. Today's featured book is Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden, by George Levenson and exquisitely photographed by Shmuel Thaler. But before we can get to the book, let's tell you about our trip to the pumpkin farm, where we learned some factoids…