My Happy Pumpkin: God’s Love Shining Through Me
Celebrate the autumn season with this adorably illustrated board book, My Happy Pumpkin. This book follows a little boy who picks out his pumpkin, washes it, carves it and gives it a smile, putting a candle inside to make it’s happiness glow—just like God’s love for us. He washes us clean of sins and throws those sins away, shaping us and letting His love glow through us.
Small children will eagerly open this pumpkin-shaped board book to discover the delightful story and colorful illustrations, by artist Claudine Gevry.
Using sing-song rhyme, author Crystal Bowman describes a fun fall tradition—carving a pumpkin face. But she adds a twist that helps preschoolers grasp the concept of God’s life-changing love for them.
Just like we scoop out the inside a pumpkin, God makes us clean on the inside too.
Format: Board book
Age range: 2 – 5 Years
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Teresa says:
This is a sweet book. My Happy Pumpkin is a really sweet childrens book about the growing of a pumpkin, and then carving it. It has some great correlations to our lives, how God cleans out our insides and how the light within shines thru our faces. I have often used an object lesson close to Halloween that shows this to kids. This book will be a great addition to that to reinforce and remind kids of some meaningful Biblical truths.
Mrs. McB says:
Bringing God into Halloween. This is an adorable book which brings God into a holiday largely devoted to celebrating the creepy/disturbing/evil. Sweet rhymes and cute illustrations make this book a welcome relief and a joy to read to little kids!