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Best Pumpkin Books To Read Before Visiting Mooresville Patches
A fall visit to pumpkin fields in Mooresville can become even better with these children's books about pumpkins.
MOORESVILLE, NC — An early fall visit to the biggest pumpkin patches and fields in or near Mooresville can only be enhanced with the best reads beforehand. Kids will be more enthused about picking out the perfect one for pumpkin carving with a better understanding of the pumpkin basics.
Here are some of the pumpkin patches in Mooresville:
Carrigan Farms, LLC
Address: 1261 Oak Ridge Farm Highway, Mooresville, (704) 664-1450.
Attractions: Says Carrigan Farms, "Come pick your own pumpkin, right off the vine! Carrigan Farms' pumpkin patches are open the entire month of October with shuttles back and forth to the patch every day." Reservations required
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Patterson Farm
Address: 10390 Caldwell Road, Mount Ulla, NC, (704) 636-4005
Attractions: Fall Fun on the Farm Weekends include a corn maze, barnyard visits, pumpkin patch and more. Tickets may be purchased here.
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.
KC Edventures, an organization that encourages children's learning through providing information on fun activities, has sorted out recommended fall reads for kids by genre and age group in its 2019 list of "12 perfect pumpkin books for kids."
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The recommended reads include "From Seed to Pumpkin," which teaches the science behind how seeds grow; "The Pumpkin Book," detailing the growth of pumpkins; and "The Very Best Pumpkin," about a boy named Peter who finds and cares for a pumpkin all summer long.
Pumpkin books for kids with a Halloween theme include “Five Little Pumpkins On Halloween Night” and “You Are My Pumpkin,” according to a 2020 list from Scholastic.com.
Here are five of the other books on the list, all available for order on Amazon.
- Pumpkin Pumpkin, author and illustrator: Jeanne Titherington
- It's Pumpkin Time!, author: Zoe Hall; illustrator: Shari Halpern
- The Runaway Pumpkin, author: Kevin Lewis; illustrator: S.D. Schindler
- Pumpkin Soup, author and illustrator: Helen Cooper
- The Pumpkin Fair, author: Eve Bunting; illustrator: Eileen Christelow
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