Pumpkin heads and jack-o-lanterns of all varieties abound when Halloween comes around.

From seed to jack-o'-lantern, Ken Robbins's beautiful book captures the emblem of Halloween: the pumpkin. From late summer to Thanksgiving, pumpkins are everywhere, a symbol of fall and a reminder of the holidays to come. In this handsome book, Ken Robbins-widely known for his sumptuous photo-essays on subjects ranging from trucks to tools to autumn leaves-portrays the pumpkin from seed, to sprout, to flower, to fully fledged fruit, and back again....

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.

The townspeople must decide what to do with thousands of pumpkins that roll down a hill and into their midst just before Halloween.

In the course of one year, a jack-o-lantern, discarded after Halloween, decomposes in the backyard and eventually grows new pumpkins from its seeds.

"Join Pete the Cat as he rocks out to this ... adaptation of the classic Halloween song 'Five little pumpkins'"--Page 4 of cover.

In a variation of the nursery rhyme "The Itsy Bitsy Spider," a jack-o-lantern encounters a goblin and a witch while trying to roll back to his family on Halloween.