Adorable Pumpkin Books for First Grade and Kindergarten

Adorable pumpkin books for first grade and kindergarten fall read alouds aren’t hard to find but some of them can surprisingly be a little scary, so I thought I would make a list of cute pumpkin books for kids! 🙂 I put affiliate links (I earn commission for sales made through the links) directly to them so you can go straight to them to check them out if you want to!

 

Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin-Picking Plan is just one of many Splat the Cat books that I love. Such funny stories with an adorable, lovable character that kids can laugh at while exploring topics. I love the fall imagery in this one like raking leaves and going to the pumpkin patch. The illustrations are fun and cute – it’s a great book to use as your first (or 100th) fall read aloud!

 

 

 

This one is another favorite of mine! Little Boo is about the cutest little pumpkin seed who wants to be scary. He keeps being told to wait and, as he’s waiting, he goes through the life cycle of a pumpkin so it is a perfect and adorable fictional story to illustrate the life cycle of a pumpkin while simply telling a cute story! I think the ending of the book is super cute & it’s a story kids can relate to… where they want to be able to do something ‘big kids’ get to do and are told to wait (and wait and wait) until they’re bigger. 🙂

 

 

 

I also love How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? for fall!

There are several cute little lessons in this book so it’s a wonderful read aloud for a couple reasons. A little boy who is the smallest kid in his class doesn’t have a guess when his teacher brings 3 pumpkins to school and asks how many seeds the students think are in each one. It has a sweet don’t make assumptions based on what someone/something looks like message and also introduces pumpkin seeds and counting big numbers. It would be an awesome book to read right before cutting open a pumpkin with your kids and counting how many seeds it has.

 

 

You probably already have this super popular book about a square pumpkin but I am still going to include it because it’s one of my favorites and maybe there are people who haven’t heard of it! It has such a sweet message. It’s also so easy to find activities for since so many teachers read it to their students. Square pumpkin crafts are an adorable, easy activity to do after reading, for example.

 

 

 

How cute is this little toy of the square pumpkin I found while finding a link to the book for you? I didn’t know this existed – so cute!! There is also a movie that I didn’t know about too!

 

 

 

Another pumpkin who is a little bit different is Stumpkin! This cute little pumpkin watches all the other pumpkins with stems get picked. This is a great one to add to your pumpkin book shelf if you don’t have it already!

 

 

 

 

I love Froggy books so, of course, I wanted to include Froggy Picks a Pumpkin as one of my pumpkin books for first grade or kindergarten! 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

Another cute character I love is Rocket! Rocket and the Perfect Pumpkin is a book some first graders will be able to read themselves so if you’re looking for a reader, this is a cute one.

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to make sure I included a book with real pictures for those of you who want to teach kids about the life cycle of a pumpkin. I chose this one because I love the vivid photographs in it. They’re great to illustrate to little kids what each stage actually looks. If you have a nonfiction book with real life pictures that you love, I’d love to hear about it!

 

 

 

Did I include your favorite pumpkin book?? Which one is your favorite? If I didn’t include it, tell me what your favorite story is below! I would love to add to my favorite pumpkin books and it’ll help everyone else who reads this to find more books too! 🙂

 

I hope you enjoyed this list of pumpkin books for first grade and kindergarten!

 

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